"Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought."

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Source : Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.208, Lexington Books

Herman Kahn

#Mistake Quotes #Simple Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.”

Source : James Mill (1829). “Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”
“Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.”
“The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.”
“The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.”
“In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“. . . All artistsâ€™ work is autobiographical. Any writerâ€™s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.”
“When I do interviews, sometimes I'll just be like "Why the hell did I say that?" because after I hang up the phone I realize there were so many things I could have said, but my brain just goes on lockdown. There's something about having conversations with people that's so much different from just singing and playing guitar. And I think a lot of people are actually performers because of that. I can't really explain why. It's like just the only chance you have in life to feel really good and outgoing.”
“I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'”

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