Kahneman Thinking Quotes

#1. It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it

Daniel Kahneman

#3. The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

Daniel Kahneman

#4. What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.

Daniel Kahneman

#5. She spoke softly and gently, like our ears needed respect, and she carried the worries of the world on her shoulders so that we did not have to. She never once complained.

Gemma Liviero

#6. Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

#8. Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

Daniel Kahneman

#9. Well, it was stupid ... you could have been seriously hurt, Kellan."
"Better me than you, Kiera," he whispered.

S.C. Stephens

#10. I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

Joni Mitchell

#11. War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.

Barbara Holland

#12. 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

#13. When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

Daniel Kahneman

#14. Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events.

Daniel Kahneman

#15. but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1 is not designed to do.

Daniel Kahneman

#16. For just as the virtue of wealth will bring out the evil of avarice, so will the evil of poverty bring out the virtue of self-respect. In this world, there is as much good that comes out of evil as ever stands by itself alone. This, in fact, is the need of evil, that out of it may lift the good.

Ernest Temple Thurston

#17. 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

#18. 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.

Daniel Kahneman

#19. automatic search for causes shapes our thinking,

Daniel Kahneman

#20. Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.

Daniel Kahneman

#21. I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Dwyane Wade

#22. One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

Daniel Kahneman

#23. Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

Daniel Kahneman