Daniel Kahneman Quotes

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.

My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.

From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.

My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.

I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

The family's dream was to see me receive a high degree abroad and to return to become a university professor - on the door to my study room, a sign was placed reading 'Dr. Ahmed,' even though I was still far from becoming a doctor.

I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends, and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.

Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.