Daniel Kahneman Quotes

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• We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
• When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
• Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the…
• Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at…
• If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you…
• Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're…
• One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so…
• One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense…
• People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.
• People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the…
• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly…
• After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept…
• All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal…
• Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the…
• Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But…
• Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy…
• Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers…
• Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those…
• Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how…
• I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of…

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