Daniel Kahneman Quotes

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

I am constantly analysing my performances and I tend to focus more on things I haven't done as well as I'd have liked.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.

If one doesn't know his mistakes, he won't want to correct them.

Learning from mistakes means having to admit them first.

I learned that you appreciate what you earn much more than what is given you. I also learned that decisions have consequences.

If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.

Put your choices in perspective.

You always look for certain things you can do better and what went wrong.

The only way you can learn is by analysing yourself and taking in your mistakes.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

You always have to look at every game and seek to correct mistakes.

Perhaps I've committed some technical and tactical mistakes and I'll look to correct them.

When you're being asked to think about the meaning of your intuitions before you act on them, maybe along the way you decide your intuitions are destructive or make no sense at all. And then you don't act on them.

When you lose you try to learn from your mistakes and build on them.