Daniel Kahneman Quotes

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.

Dreams, remembered or not, can color our mood for a good part of the day.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).

Sadness isn't a natural response.

The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it! When thou smilest, my beloved, Then my troubled heart is brightened, As in sunshine gleam the ripples That the cold wind makes in rivers.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that I am more creative when I am happy actually.