Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life. Daniel Kahneman Read Quote
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress. Daniel Kahneman Read Quote
We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action. Daniel Kahneman Read Quote
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don’t know we’re doing it. Daniel Kahneman Read Quote
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it’s interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won’t remember them. Daniel Kahneman Read Quote
If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices. Daniel Kahneman Read Quote
My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making – from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy. Daniel Kahneman Read Quote
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. Daniel Kahneman Read Quote
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie. Daniel Kahneman Read Quote
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings. Daniel Kahneman Read Quote
