Bad news Quote by Daniel Kahneman Download Open image “The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.” — Daniel Kahneman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad news Brain Giving Humans Mechanism Nature of man News Priorities
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“Why do we focus on certain things at the expense of others? We will risk our lives to save a person from drowning, yet… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
We have bad things that will hurt us, but its because it lets us know where still alive and awake... — Chris Castillo Copy Share Image
Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences. — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down. — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“One of the brain's most prominent skills is the ability to ignore anything that becomes too predictable, no matter how important it may be” — Dean Burnett Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“People who are poor think like traders, but the dynamics are quite different. Unlike traders, the poor are not indifferent to the differences between… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“So this is my aim for watercooler conversations: improve the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, in others and eventually… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people. — Brian J. Smith Copy Share Image
“I remember a man, a very lonely man, coming up to me at the end of a reading and looking into my face and… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If there's one thing you should know about me it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
“The bad news is that, measured in terms of geologic time, if the Earth’s history is an accurate guide, glaciers will soon return to… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image