Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.

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.

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.

Until you solve problems like fear individually, resolve why individuals feel the need to believe in whatever, there's really no point in organizations, in things that turn the world into a concept rather than an individual fact.

I want to increase awareness for the importance of life.

You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

So, the older I got the more I started to appreciate balance and variety in my life, and once you get a taste of that returning and realize how happy it can make you it is very difficult to conceive giving that up again.

I enjoy the balance I have in my life.

The day you stop enjoying something is the day you should quit, if you can afford to.

In the end, the important thing is that you decide where you will be happy and where you can do well, to show that as well as being footballers, we are people.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

It's not interesting enough if you don't know who you are, what you want. You need to make educated decisions about your moves and talk to people who care about you. And you need to have people who will have your back.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.