Daniel Kahneman Quotes

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

If you relax too much, the subconscious plays the role; the conscious does something else, rather than the other way around, which is the way it's supposed to be.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I don't like to rush things.

I won't jump two-footed into something without really thinking about it.

We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.