Quotes About Change

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Very little repetition is needed for a new experience to feel normal!

It is difficult to accept changes for the worse.

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?")

Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett

Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder.

A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome. Our

The idea of old age had not come to their conscious awareness, but their actions had changed nevertheless. This remarkable priming phenomenon—the influencing of an action by the idea—is known as the ideomotor effect.

A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome. Our story was no exception.

Because of the coincidence of two planes crashing last month, she now prefers to take the train. That's silly. The risk hasn't really changed; it is an availability bias.

A lot happened to you during the last second or two.

The agent of economic theory is rational, selfish, and his tastes do not change.

Correcting your predictions may complicate your life

The sunk-cost fallacy keeps people for too long in poor jobs, unhappy marriages, and unpromising research projects. I have often observed young scientists struggling to salvage a doomed project when they would be better advised to drop it and start a new one. Fortunately, research suggests that at least in some contexts the fallacy can be overcome. The

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.

even compelling causal statistics will not change long-held beliefs or beliefs rooted in personal experience.

Once you adopt a new view of the world (or of any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.

The proof that you truly understand a pattern of behavior is that you know how to reverse it.

Psychology has come a long way.

to put it differently, you are not always the same person, and you are less consistent over time than you think. But somewhat reassuringly, you are more similar to yourself yesterday than you are to another person today.