Dan Ariely Quotes

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.

Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away.

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.

Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.

You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.