Psychology Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“the best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult…

— Tal Ben-Shahar

“Mental effort moves us into higher gear, activating more vigorous and more analytical brain machinery.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“There is no craving or demand of the human mind more constant and insatiable than that for exercise and employment, and this desire seems…

— David Hume

“The most surprising discovery made by Baumeister’s group shows, as he puts it, that the idea of mental energy is more than a mere…

— Daniel Kahneman

“And when people exhaust their self-control, what they’re exhausting are the mental muscles needed to think creatively, to focus, to inhibit their impulses, and…

— Chip Heath

“If emotion and fatigue lowered the potency of thought, what raised it? I began to reconsider my moments of delight in terms of this…

— Marion Milner

“The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult…

— Cal Newport

“Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.”

— Steve Maraboli

“System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 2 allocates attention to the effortful…

— Daniel Kahneman

“How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.”

— Meg Rosoff

“According to the Fogg Behavior Model, ability is the capacity to do a particular behavior.   *** Fogg describes six “elements of simplicity” —…

— Nir Eyal

“assumed that if you removed a human being’s natural incentive to work—his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy—and replaced it with external motivation and coercion,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin