"Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave."

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Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.155, Harvard University Press

Howard Raiffa

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“Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.”

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“There's really not much conscious thought involved when I record. I just kind of record what feels good. I'm not trying to make it sound like anything.”
“I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”
“For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You have a sense of what it is you must set out to do. But nothing will form yet. When you sit down to write or paint or form movement, it's like stepping over a cliff or into a dense fog. All you can do is trust that this impending masterpiece is going to somehow manifest itself as you work. But you do know that there is something specific ahead, and you feel the excitement of that.”
“Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.”
“God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.”
“You're impossible," he murmured. "But you're worth it.”
“In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.”

Source : Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.95, Routledge

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