"Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape……" — Daniel Gilbert
"Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!"
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56 Quotes by Daniel Gilbert
Daniel Gilbert has 56 quotes on this site.
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The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral…
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Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not…
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The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will.…
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In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths…
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People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to…
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We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things…
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Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.
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When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set…
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We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our…
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for…
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It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!
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For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
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Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball…
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take…
— Larry Bird
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It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
— Larry Bird
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I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which…
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