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.


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DANIEL WEBSTER
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of lib...
DANIEL WEBSTER
It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
DANIEL WEBSTER
What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts o...
DANIEL WEBSTER
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transpa...
DANIEL GILLIES
I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the sou...
DANIEL GILLIES
Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy p...
DANIEL GILLIES
I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad foo...
DANIEL GILLIES
Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
DANIEL GILLIES
Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often...
DANIEL GILBERT
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make o...
DANIEL GILBERT
If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already...
DANIEL GILBERT
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of ...
DANIEL GILBERT
We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think...
DANIEL GILBERT
Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to...
DANIEL GILBERT
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a l...
DANIEL GILBERT
I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful ...
DANIEL GILBERT
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and...
DANIEL GILBERT
Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the wors...
DANIEL GILBERT
Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's ...
DANIEL GILBERT
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and syste...
DANIEL GILBERT
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT
I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch...
DANIEL EVERETT
It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion ...
DANIEL EVERETT
As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it bec...
DANIEL EVERETT
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some r...
DANIEL EVERETT
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the ...
DANIEL EVERETT
Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvatio...
DANIEL EVERETT
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and...
DANIEL EVERETT
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic tr...
DANIEL EVERETT
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common...
DANIEL EVERETT
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to hu...
DANIEL EVERETT
Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very g...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't mak...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I thi...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA