Daniel Kahneman Quotes

The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

An opportunity missed once will present itself again, whereas a too hasty action can never be recalled.

The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot be established at the moment, and of grasping the essential fact, discarding the unessential, even though one can give no account of the principles by which this is done.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.

Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!

One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

We all have choices that we are empowered to make on a daily basis, and while those choices can be limited by affordability and accessibility, we still have the opportunity to make our best choice. That best choice usually requires more effort and more thought, but, undeniably, the results are worth it.

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

My mistake was in ever opening the books.

The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

I made the wrong mistakes

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

The toughest are people mistakes, when you put the wrong person in a job. Sometimes you're too slow to move them out. Or not getting the right people involved to solve a problem, or doing something out of anger; you learn, just don't do that. But I'd have to say the Whale was one of them, and I would also have to put Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual on the list at this point.

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

I was basically a broke student, and I moved to Asia and was making some money to go back to school. One thing led to another, and I was supposed to stay two months, but it ended up being eight years. It was the best mistake I ever made.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.

First of all, feminism is not man-hating, not man-berating. It is not saying we are better. It is just saying we want the same opportunities, and we want to be able to make decisions on our own without being judged for them. We want the same freedom men have enjoyed over the years, so I think that's the place where we are. And it's completely not mutually exclusive at all for how you want to look, how you take care of yourself, how you want to be, what you want to look like.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.