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Daniel Kahneman Inspirational Quotes (124)

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The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.
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Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.
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Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.
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It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
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People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
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People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.
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We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
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Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.
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People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.
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Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
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Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.
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The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.
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The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
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Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
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Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
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People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.
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Each additional day together is a gift. The end of the day means the end of hostilities, the recognition that the underlying shared values and commitment to the relationship trump the need for one last dig or self-righteous justification.
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Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
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Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.
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If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.
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I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
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True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
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