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Life Quotes by Daniel Kahneman
- We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.
- We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up…
- Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
- It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
- The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
- 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…
- 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…
- Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that…
- The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just…
- When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to…
- People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with,…
- Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle