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It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
— Daniel Kahneman
Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
— Daniel Kahneman
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
— Daniel Kahneman
We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
— Daniel Kahneman
I'm not a great believer in self-help.
— Daniel Kahneman
We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
— Daniel Kahneman
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
— Daniel Kahneman
In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
— Daniel Kahneman
I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.
— Daniel Kahneman
The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
— Daniel Kahneman
Intuitive predictions need to be corrected because they are not regressive and therefore are biased.
— Daniel Kahneman
To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other.
— Daniel Kahneman
The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.
— Daniel Kahneman
The mind is good with stories, but it does not appear to be well designed for the processing of time.
— Daniel Kahneman
A divorce is like a symphony with a screeching sound at the end - the fact that it ended badly does not mean it was all bad.
— Daniel Kahneman
Put your ideas in verse if you can; they will be more likely to be taken as truth.
— Daniel Kahneman
And want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit
— Daniel Kahneman
Knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
— Daniel Kahneman
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.
— Daniel Kahneman
Familiarity breeds liking.
— Daniel Kahneman
True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
— Daniel Kahneman
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.
— Daniel Kahneman
People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.
— Daniel Kahneman
What people acquire with a ticket is more than a chance to win; it is the right to dream pleasantly of winning.
— Daniel Kahneman
Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."
— Daniel Kahneman
The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.
— Daniel Kahneman
Maintaining one's vigilance against biases is a chore - but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort.
— Daniel Kahneman
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
— Daniel Kahneman
We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again.
— Daniel Kahneman
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
— Daniel Kahneman
Let's not fall for the outcome bias. This was a stupid decision even though it worked out well.
— Daniel Kahneman
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
— Daniel Kahneman
Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.
— Daniel Kahneman
Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett
— Daniel Kahneman
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
— Daniel Kahneman
It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.
— Daniel Kahneman
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
— Daniel Kahneman
A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
— Daniel Kahneman
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
— Daniel Kahneman
Belief in the Law of Small Numbers.
— Daniel Kahneman
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
— Daniel Kahneman
Once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.
— Daniel Kahneman
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
— Daniel Kahneman
Simple, common gestures can also unconsciously influence our thoughts and feelings.
— Daniel Kahneman
One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.
— Daniel Kahneman
If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.
— Daniel Kahneman
Bazaar shoppers who wear dark glasses in order to hide their level of interest from merchants.
— Daniel Kahneman
We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.
— Daniel Kahneman
One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.
— Daniel Kahneman
If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.
— Daniel Kahneman
regression inevitably occurs when the correlation between two measures is less than perfect,
— Daniel Kahneman
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.
— Daniel Kahneman
prepared for the future as you could be. An odd feature of what happened is that your System 1 treated the mere conjunction of
— Daniel Kahneman
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.
— Daniel Kahneman
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
— Daniel Kahneman
Not all illusions are visual. There are illusions of thought, which we call cognitive illusions.
— Daniel Kahneman
Endlessly amused by people's minds.
— Daniel Kahneman
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
— Daniel Kahneman
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
— Daniel Kahneman
Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.
— Daniel Kahneman
There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
— Daniel Kahneman
living in a culture that surrounds us with reminders of money may shape our behavior and our attitudes in ways that we do not know about
— Daniel Kahneman
Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events.
— Daniel Kahneman
Something is still missing from this story: the answers need to be fitted to the original questions.
— Daniel Kahneman
My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.
— Daniel Kahneman
And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts - although they may have valuable insights into the near future. The
— Daniel Kahneman
People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.
— Daniel Kahneman
Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.
— Daniel Kahneman
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.
— Daniel Kahneman
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
— Daniel Kahneman
A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.
— Daniel Kahneman
it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.
— Daniel Kahneman
The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.
— Daniel Kahneman
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
— Daniel Kahneman
They didn't want more information that might spoil their story. WYSIATI.
— Daniel Kahneman
People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.
— Daniel Kahneman
Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
— Daniel Kahneman
However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.
— Daniel Kahneman
In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.
— Daniel Kahneman
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
— Daniel Kahneman
While writing the article that reported these findings, Amos and I discovered that we enjoyed working together.
— Daniel Kahneman
The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
— Daniel Kahneman
The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.
— Daniel Kahneman
Conflict between an automatic reaction and an intention to control it is common in our lives.
— Daniel Kahneman
The question we face is whether this candidate can succeed. The question we seem to answer is whether she interviews well. Let's not substitute.
— Daniel Kahneman
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
— Daniel Kahneman
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
— Daniel Kahneman
Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the best of times,
— Daniel Kahneman
People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
— Daniel Kahneman
Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions
— Daniel Kahneman
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
— Daniel Kahneman
The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
— Daniel Kahneman
