Wysiati Quotes & Sayings

We care little about what the average citizen thinks. — Tom Metzger

Life is given to each human being
For a very special purpose.
This secret each human being
Must discover for himself. — Sri Chinmoy

The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of. — Doug Casey

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission? — Barbara Kingsolver

He didn't care. She was a sexual hand grenade with the pin pulled out, but he could never manage to resist her. Whatever this said about him didn't matter. — Daniel Suarez

God has given you a gift, why not open it?! — Habeeb Akande

You're a dead language, you know that? No one is like you, and you are like no one. — Tarryn Fisher

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available. — Buzz Aldrin

They didn't want more information that might spoil their story. WYSIATI. — Daniel Kahneman

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it. — Jack Black

Burning is no answer. — Camille Desmoulins

We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star." — Daniel Kahneman

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf

Overconfidence: As the WYSIATI rule implies, neither the quantity nor the quality of the evidence counts for much in subjective confidence. — Daniel Kahneman

If you want to turn your life you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you — Kyra Davis