Daniel Kahneman Quotes

The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.

There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

I have no time for a vacation.

I barely get any time for myself.

Nowadays excessive work and pressure are status symbols. Time to oneself is sooner equated with unemployment and laziness, certainly in countries where the wealth gap has widened.

I work from mornings to late nights, even on weekends and holidays. I hardly have any free time, let alone time to play other games.

Work-life balance is one of the biggest misconceptions people have.

You get caught up sometimes in the deadlines and the pressures and certain things that you can't really control that you forget that this is supposed to be an enjoyable journey.

I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and unpressurized time and I like to meet people who have a similar attitude.

Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.

Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.