It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The notion that we have limited access to the workings of our minds is difficult to accept because, naturally, it is alien… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Researchers have applied diverse methods to examine the connection between thinking and self-control. Some have addressed it by asking the correlation question:… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“People who are poor think like traders, but the dynamics are quite different. Unlike traders, the poor are not indifferent to the differences between… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“So this is my aim for watercooler conversations: improve the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, in others and eventually… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
![“People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of…” quote by Daniel Kahneman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/949/daniel-kahneman-431_abstract_people-are-very-good-at-thinking-about-a_2370436.jpg)
