"The most difficult thing is to recognize that……" — Dan Ariely
"The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us."
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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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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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Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.
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More Blinded Quotes
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O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
— John Calvin
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The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.
— Billy Graham
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Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees…
— Martin Luther
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Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low…
— Timothy Leary
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Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of…
— Frank Press
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The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but…
— Richey Edwards
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In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor…
— Thomas Paine
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I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that…
— Unknown Author
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Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like…
— Leonid Andreyev
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But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation…
— Albert Einstein
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I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty…
— Unknown Author
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