"we usually think of ourselves as sitting the……" — Dan Ariely
"we usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves-than with reality"
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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 Alas Quotes
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
— Louis Untermeyer
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
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