450 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

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

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

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.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.