Kahneman Tversky Quotes

#1. Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.

Rudolf Steiner

#2. The smaller the sample size, the more likely that it is unrepresentative of the wider population..."people can be taught the correct rule, perhaps even with little difficulty. The point remains that people do not follow the correct rule, when left to their own devices.

Michael Lewis

#3. You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.

Alan Lightman

#4. It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

Russell Banks

#5. They would learn to evaluate a decision not by its outcomes--whether it turned out to be right or wrong--but by the process that led to it. The job of the decision maker wasn't to be right but to figure out the odds in any decision and play them well.

Michael Lewis

#6. Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other.

Francois Englert

#7. To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

Jimmy Wales

#8. If the movie [The Hunger Games] were stylized violence that was pretty and fun and cool, which is great when you go see 300 or The Matrix, it would just be out of sync with the fact that they're kids.

Nina Jacobson

#9. I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.

Chris Paul

#10. Isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:

Tim Harford

#11. One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. We must continually abide in the vine, so that we can keep bearing lasting fruits

Lailah Gifty Akita