Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claire Danes

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

Claire Danes

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

Claire Danes

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

Daniel Keys Moran

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Daniel Johns

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

Daniel Johns

Think what you want, this is what we are.

Daniel Johns

There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they're not.

Daniel Keyes

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

Daniel Kahneman

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

Daniel Kahneman

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

Daniel Kahneman

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

Daniel Kahneman

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

Daniel Kahneman

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

Daniel Kahneman

People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.

Daniel Kahneman

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

Daniel Kahneman

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Daniel Kahneman

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

Daniel Kahneman

We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.

Daniel Kahneman

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

Daniel Kahneman

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

Daniel Kahneman

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

D. L. Hughley

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

D. J. MacHale

I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one—at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

D. B. Sweeney

I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

D. A. Carson

The notion of the enduring authority focuses on the fact that some people think that notions like authority of Scripture's is passé, while others say that the present configuration of the doctrine of inerrancy is a late addition. And to both we want to say, No we're talking about the enduring authority of Scripture, grounded first and foremost in its relevatory status, something given by God and utterly reliable.

D. A. Carson

It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.

D. H. Lawrence

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

D. H. Lawrence

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

D. H. Lawrence

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

Crystal Chappell

They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.

Crystal Waters

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

Curly Howard

I'm tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!