Tversky Quotes

#1. Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.

Wendell Pierce

#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. Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.

Katie McGarry

#4. A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based not on how often the event has actually occurred, but on how vivid the past examples are.

Benjamin Graham

#6. A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

Kit Bond

#7. [Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

Amos Tversky

#8. 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

#9. It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

Amos Tversky

#10. My father ... raised me to make up my own mind. The way he did this was by yielding to me when I asked, even when I was foolish. I lived through it; and I know my own mind; and he will do what I ask him.

Robin McKinley

#11. You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

Pam Grier

#12. Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.

Amos Tversky

#13. We must become what we wish to teach.

Nathaniel Branden

#14. Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it.

Amos Tversky

#15. 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

#16. Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

Amos Tversky

#17. My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.

Amos Tversky

#18. 12:13 Purpose with resolve to treat strangers as saints; pursue and embrace them with fondness as friends on equal terms of fellowship. Make yourself useful in the most practical way possible. (Eph 3:18)

Francois Du Toit

#19. My happiness is tied to how I feel about myself.

Michelle Obama

#20. My name is very important to me. I'm representing the Wade name. I've got the name on the back of my jersey when I play. I walk around with that name. That's my family name, the name my son will grow up with. So it's very important to me to keep the level of maturity that I have.

Dwyane Wade

#21. unequally; rarely do they assign equal weights to attributes when performing categorization (Goodman, 1955; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Ortony, 1979; Sutherland & Mackintosh, 1971; Trabasso & Bower, 1968: A. Tversky, 1977).

Lawrence W. Barsalou

#22. I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

Novak Djokovic

#23. The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours

Michael Lewis