Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — 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
Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it. — 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 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
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
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
Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.” — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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