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Thinking Quotes by Daniel Kahneman
- The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
- We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally…
- Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
- Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.
- What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to…
- One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.
- Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
- 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.
- So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
- Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
- It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
- It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.
- Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what…
- 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…
- Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their…
- 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…
- Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
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