Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.
– Daniel Kahneman
Related Quotes:
- Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. – Daniel Kahneman
- We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero. – Daniel Kahneman
- Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero. – Daniel Kahneman
- Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- more guilt, guilt, guilt. That’s the Irish condition. – Adrian McKinty
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- Our parents would not be -˜The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you. – Bryant McGill
- The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works. – Daniel Kahneman
- The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own. – Daniel Kahneman
- You think with your body, not with your brain. – Daniel Kahneman
- The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact. – Daniel Kahneman
- The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained. – Daniel Kahneman
- The ‘Instagram Generation’ now experiences the present as an anticipated memory. – Daniel Kahneman
- Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me. – Daniel Kahneman
- Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them. – Daniel Kahneman
- There’s a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make. – Daniel Kahneman
- He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all. – Laini Taylor
- Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and… No thinking is far better then positive thinking – Ed Strachar
- A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself. – Shahida Arabi
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. – Haruki Murakami
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered. – Sunday Adelaja
- When I discovered music -” when I discovered the craft of shaping a song -” my being fell into place. – Charlotte Eriksson
- Wisdom is not always discovered in a book, true wisdom is discovered in the knowing that you know nothing. – Pasha Cook
- I don’t think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970’s. That’s when I discovered it anyway. – Craig Ferguson
- To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child. – E Stanley Jones
- For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns. – Neeraj Bhanot
- Parents, don’t invest in your child’s teaching; invest in your child’s learning. – Steve Ahn
- Perhaps he was merely being friendly. Perhaps he saw the look on my face and mistook it for something else. Really what I wanted was the cigarette. – Margaret Atwood
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- Where ever there’s guilt there’s violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood. – Glen Duncan
- There is a good guilt and a bad guilt… the good one Leeds us to ask for forgiveness the bad Leeds us to hide from God. – Chuck Bridges
- Got something to do with guilt,’ Toro said. ‘Her mother,neh?’ ‘Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us. – Kiana Davenport
- This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong. – Atul Gawande