"Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted."

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Source : Amos Tversky, Eldar Shafir (2004). “Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings”, p.207, MIT Press

Amos Tversky

#One Direction Quotes #Self Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.”
“One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.”
“Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something else, but also act together. If you are thinking about an elemental solidarity, you are thinking about people acting together and taking decisions together, and thereby beginning to think about what sort of society they want to create. So, there is a need for liberated spaces; that is really difficult.”
“American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.”
“The biggest nuts and guess what? He is I and I am him.”
“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.”
“For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.”

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