Kravecs Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves. — Travis J. Dahnke

And it is natural for System 1 to generate overconfident judgments, because confidence, as we have seen, is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell from the evidence at hand. Be warned: your intuitions will deliver predictions that are too extreme and you will be inclined to put far too much faith in them. — Daniel Kahneman

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. — Oscar Wilde

The first purpose of prayer is to know God. — Charles L. Allen

Are you better than this friendship?" I ask quietly, afraid of the answer. "I think I'm better than you," he says. — Pierce Brown

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

There are no small steps in great affairs. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was probably more in force in America-that holy of holies of capitalism-than in any other country in the world. — Felix Houphouet-Boigny