Book Titles

Thinking, Fast and Slow

By Daniel Kahneman

Year Published: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0374275631
Categories: Psychology, Thinking

128 Quotes Found

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Thinking, Fast and Slow:

…you should not put too much weight on regret; even if you have some, it will hurt less than you now think.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow:

Theoretical beliefs are robust, and it takes much more than one embarrassing finding for established theories to be seriously questioned.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow:

…the process by which objects and events recruit their own context of comparison can lead to incoherent choices on serious matters.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow:

Salespeople quickly learn that manipulation of the context in which customers see a good can profoundly influence preferences.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow:

Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions of reality rather than to reality itself.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow:

Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living, and the only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow:

What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow:

A story is about significant events and memorable moments, not about time passing.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow:

Our emotional state is largely determined by what we attend to, and we are normally focused on our current activity and immediate environment.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow:

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.

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