Quotes About Dominant

optimistic bias plays a role—sometimes the dominant role—whenever individuals or institutions voluntarily take on significant risks.

We were not the first to notice that people become risk seeking when all their options are bad, but theory-induced blindness had prevailed. Because the dominant theory did not provide a plausible way to accommodate different attitudes to risk for gains and losses, the fact that the attitudes differed had to be ignored.

Anyone who has gazed into the nighttime sky knows that the dominant objects visible to our unaided eyes are stars.

the dominant ways of thinking about culture and cultural change are flawed, for they are based on both specious social science and problematic theology.

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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

In this case, it means that, since automobiles are by far the dominant form of travel, small improvements in automobile fuel economy or toxic emissions will have a bigger effect on energy consumption or clean air than big changes in public transit.

For me, the biggest thing with Overeem, he's a K-1 champ, Strikeforce champ, DREAM champ, you name it. He's had every belt in there.

Not everyone in Santa Monica is a well-heeled, juice-cleansing, Prius-driving yogini, but for better or worse, that is the city's dominant chord.

Superstar NBA players don't just change positions in their prime. Not eight years into their careers... not when they've been consistently at the top of the league in scoring... and especially not when their team lacks another dominant scorer.

In some films it wouldn't be surprising to see the United States envisioned as a significant but not primary dominant marketplace, and treated accordingly. But in comics, that's for the governing minds at each of the companies and corporations to find out for themselves.

Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

The three great armies of the Mughal world had come together to defeat the Company and expel it from India. When instead it was the Mughals that were defeated, the Company was left the dominant military force in north-east India. Buxar confirmed the Company's control of Bengal and the coast and opened the way for them to extend their influence far inland to the west.

The Rouge was Henry Ford's greatest triumph, and with its completion he stood alone as the dominant figure in America and the entire developed world. He

The facts of the Great Depression made a dominant economic theory that denied the possibility of generalized crisis untenable.

That's okay, I'm still the Greatest.