Habits Quote by Steven D. Levitt

“Humans respond to incentives.”

— Steven D. Levitt

“Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don’t live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.”

— Rob Sheffield

“I have learned that human beings are all about incentives”

— Harlan Coben

“I know enough about human nature to know that people generally prefer to find the most corrupt way of doing things possible, given enough…

— Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones Ascent

“We have become insensible to the human costs of apparently rational social policies, especially when we are advised that they will contribute to overall…

— Tony Judt

“If asked how we'd behave in a situation that pits a private benefit against the greater good, most of us won't admit to favoring…

— Steven D. Levitt

“Human behavior is influenced more strongly by the rules we have about how things are supposed to work than by our actual experience.”

— Susan M. Orsillo

“Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.”

— David Levithan

“When people are motivated by money, they make bad decisions.”

— Steven Magee

“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what we are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put…

— Iain Banks

“Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.”

— Alain de Botton

“When there is greed within; a person shall fall into societal influence.”

— Dada Bhagwan