Quotes On Cognitive Biases

#1. I will always appreciate 'American Idol,' and I never forget about where I come from.

Lee DeWyze

#2. The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence.

Paul Gibbons

#3. The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

William Arthur Ward

#4. We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.

Niall Ferguson

#5. Our success in life should be measured by the level of change you impart on the lives of the needy not by the amount of wealth you acquire".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#6. We make a number of reasoning errors due to cognitive biases.

Daniel J. Levitin

#7. If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.

Barbara De Angelis

#8. Why do you want to be a lawyer, Miss Everhart?" "I enjoy screwing people over," she said. "I figure I might as well get paid for it.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#9. The paranoid one's wards are still active. They keep me several feet from the building."
"But not his car," I said, a smile tugging at my lips. Barrons would go nuts if he knew that V'lane had touched his Viper. And stretched out on it nude? He'd have an aneurysm.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

Anne Rice

#11. Thanks to a plethora of cognitive biases, faulty heuristics, and common fallacies of thought, you are probably deluding yourself minute by minute just to cope with reality.

David McRaney

#12. The key to success is to stay clean at all times.

DJ Khaled

#13. Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#14. All of us are not always smarter than one of us, leaders need to distinguish between the wisdom of crowds and the madness of crowds.

Paul Gibbons

#15. Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Paul Gibbons

#16. I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve to you.

Luigi Pirandello

#17. I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained to the utmost.

Andrew Loomis

#18. Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

Bonnie Friedman

#19. Our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

Nancy Mairs