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Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Israeli - Psychologist | March 5, 1934 -

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Daniel Kahneman

Process Attention Seems Your Extent

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

Daniel Kahneman

Life Think Thinking You Important

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

Daniel Kahneman

Reality Emotions Same Different

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.

Daniel Kahneman

Hate Travel Losing People Small Air

People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

Daniel Kahneman

People Friends Doubt Appearance Look

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

Voting Stronger Nobody Say Guy Got

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Daniel Kahneman

Opinions Overconfident Impressions

Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

Daniel Kahneman

Lose Fairness Rules Unfair Follow

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.

Daniel Kahneman

Life Happiness View True Happiness

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

Daniel Kahneman

Past Memory Know Personal Mean Big

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Daniel Kahneman

Decision Effort Right Importance

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

Daniel Kahneman

Cats Mind You Know Way Dogs

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