Time Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

— Daniel Kahneman

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

— Daniel Kahneman

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

— Daniel Kahneman

Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

— Daniel Kahneman

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

— Daniel Kahneman

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

— Daniel Kahneman

“teaching psychology is mostly a waste of time.”

— Daniel Kahneman

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

— Daniel Kahneman

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between…

— Daniel Kahneman

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Merely reminding people of a time when they had power increases their apparent trust in their own intuition.”

— Daniel Kahneman

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

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who…

— Daniel Kahneman

“the central fact of our existence is that time is the ultimate finite resource, but the remembering self ignores that reality”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Even in the absence of time pressure, maintaining a coherent train of thought requires discipline.”

— Daniel Kahneman

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at…

— Daniel Kahneman

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

The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in…

— Daniel Kahneman

The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you…

— Daniel Kahneman

Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three…

— Daniel Kahneman

If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the…

— Daniel Kahneman

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score…

— Daniel Kahneman

You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control the future. These illusions…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The mistake that people make in the focusing illusion involves attention to selected moments and neglect of what happens at other times.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Many intelligent and well-informed people were keenly interested in the future of the economy and did not believe a catastrophe was imminent;…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The children were watched through a one-way mirror, and the film that shows their behavior during the waiting time always has the…

— Daniel Kahneman

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and…

— Daniel Kahneman

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the…

— Daniel Kahneman

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

— Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

— Daniel Kahneman

“Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome was a disaster.…

— Daniel Kahneman

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There…

— Daniel Kahneman

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

— Daniel Kahneman

“time meet a patient who shares a disturbing tale of multiple mistakes in his previous treatment. He has been seen by several…

— Daniel Kahneman

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a…

— Daniel Kahneman

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in…

— Daniel Kahneman

“prepared for the future as you could be. An odd feature of what happened is that your System 1 treated the mere…

— Daniel Kahneman

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

— Daniel Kahneman