Thoughts and actions Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“System 2 is also credited with the continuous monitoring of your own behavior—the control that keeps you polite when you are angry, and alert…

— Daniel Kahneman

“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

“System 1 continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. If endorsed by System 2, impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs,…

— Daniel Kahneman

“A crucial capability of System 2 is the adoption of “task sets”: it can program memory to obey an instruction that overrides habitual responses.…

— Daniel Kahneman

Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.

— Frederick Lenz

“impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by System 2 these become beliefs, attitudes, and intentions”

— Daniel Kahneman

“The main function of System 1 is to maintain and update a model of your personal world, which represents what is normal in it.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“simply by deciding (and following through on the decision) to observe the on-going activity in your own mind. Using a computer metaphor, you activate…

— David Tuffley

“mental life—today I would speak of the life of System 2—is normally conducted at the pace of a comfortable walk, sometimes interrupted by episodes…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Systems thinking is a state of mind. Once you have this state of mind, you realize how each part of your business flows into…

— Lisa Mininni

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

— Raymond Holliwell