Daniel Kahneman

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all. ”

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. ”

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same. ”

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. ”

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

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

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to. ”

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. ”

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness. ”

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices. ”