Quotes About Impact

Gruesome images, endlessly repeated in the media, cause everyone to be on edge. As I know from experience, it is difficult to reason oneself into a state of complete calm.

Adam switches from a gas-guzzler of 12 mpg to a slightly less voracious guzzler that runs at 14 mpg. The environmentally virtuous Beth switches from a 30 mpg car to one that runs at 40 mpg.

an accurate diagnosis may suggest an intervention to limit the damage that bad judgments and choices often cause.

single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

Losses are weighted about twice as much as gains in several contexts:

teaching psychology is mostly a waste of time.

Prospect theory turned out to be the most significant work we ever did, and our article is among the most often cited in the social sciences.

Los datos sugieren que el optimismo es algo muy extendido, pertinaz y costoso.

Allowing the observers to influence each other effectively reduces the size of the sample, and with it the precision of the group estimate.

even compelling causal statistics will not change long-held beliefs or beliefs rooted in personal experience. On the other hand, surprising individual cases have a powerful impact and are a more effective tool for teaching psychology because the incongruity must be resolved and embedded in a causal story.

CEOs do influence performance, but the effects are much smaller than a reading of the business press suggests.

losses evokes stronger negative feelings than costs.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness.

for most people, the cause of a mistake matters. The

Regla del pico final: la estimación en retrospectiva global estaba bien predicha por el valor medio del nivel de dolor manifestado en el peor momento de la experiencia y al terminar esta. • Olvido de la duración: la duración del procedimiento no tuvo efecto alguno sobre las estimaciones del dolor total.

The implication is clear: as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog." The affect heuristic simplifies our lives by creating a world that is much tidier than reality.

Some experimenters have reported that an angry face "pops out" of a crowd of happy faces, but a single happy face does not stand out in an angry crowd. The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

The assessment of the impact of the Babylonian exile must make far more use of nonbiblical documents, archaeological reports, and a far more imaginative use of biblical texts read in the light of what we know about refugee studies, disaster studies, postcolonialist reflections, and sociologies of trauma. (p. 33)

Businesses that don't do something valuable for others do not survive and should not survive. Profit is a way to measure how useful a business is. That doesn't ever change.

Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime — just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them

In the beginning of life, we're on fire and want to change the world. Yet as we get older, we realize how difficult that is, so we think that if we can have a positive influence on those around us, we'll have lived a worthwhile life. As we get older still, we understand that we can change no one, and simply look for the courage to change ourselves.

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

The point I am making is that most of that extra consumption you fear will destroy the planet is not actually going to come from what you can claim to be surplus consumption, the hair gel and the jacuzzis. It will come from the provision of basic services that no one can call over-consumption. And we need to confront those, since they are a lot harder to curb.

Que des livres puissent à ce point bouleverser notre conscience et laisser le monde aller au pire, voilà de quoi rester muet.