“It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.” — Daniel Kahneman Quote

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

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.

My rule of thumb is to always do what's on the page first. Then you can talk to your director about playing with it. Improv frees me up in a character, but I would be mortified if the writers who agonized over their words assumed I thought my improv was more valuable.