"individuals are honest only to the extent that……" — Dan Ariely
"individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)"
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39 Quotes by Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely has 39 quotes on this site.
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Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone…
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We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random…
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Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of…
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Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
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If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help…
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That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is…
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We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we…
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The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t…
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When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we…
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There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.
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The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front…
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When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is…
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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