Daniel Kahneman Quotes

I wouldn't do anything I don't enjoy.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

If something makes someone happy, then that's what they should do.

I know what I need. I don't want people to tell me what I need.

Who do you want to be: the radical man who can make a choice in one second, or the man who never takes decisions? That's the question: who's the best? Actually, there is no best.

People are decisions and actions.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

Independence is doing what you want to do, knowing that you're happy with the decisions you're making and that it's the best for you.

Every choice leads you somewhere, but it might not be where you truly want to be if the decision is based on someone else. It could lead to regrets and what-ifs, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't still have valuable experiences.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

The pleasure is our choice.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.