Quotes About Aversion

though it is a form of intimacy I don't care for, since I have a tendency to fight shy of bonds.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Loss aversion helps produce inertia, meaning a strong desire to stick with your current holdings.

Roughly speaking, losing something makes you twice as miserable as gaining the same thing makes you happy. In more technical language, people are "loss averse.

we will see, loss aversion operates as a kind of cognitive nudge, pressing us not to make changes, even when

But if it is crazy to turn down the 100 bets, the logic of Samuelson's argument is just reversed; you should not turn down one! Shlomo and I called this phenomenon "myopic loss aversion". The only way you can ever take 100 attractive bets is by first taking the first one, and it is only thinking about the bet in isolation that fools you into turning it down.

The fact that a loss hurts more than an equivalent gain gives pleasure is called loss aversion. It has become the single most powerful tool in the behavioral economist's arsenal.

Loss aversion produces inertia, meaning a strong desire to stick with your current holdings. Loss aversion operates as a kind of cognitive nudge, pressing us not to make changes, even when changes are very much in our interests.

I won't go looking for trouble. I usually don't have too.

Meg gagged. I hate bugs. That made sense for a daughter of the agriculture goddess, but to me the dead ant didn't seem any grosser than the piles of garbage in which we often swam.

During the Depression, much of my career was dictated by a fanatical aversion to washing dishes. The only job I could find to finance college involved washing dishes,so I joined the Navy instead.

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

As a surfeit of the sweetest thingsThe deepest loathing to the stomach brings.

Some men there are love not a gaping pig;Some, that are mad if they behold a cat.

I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.

I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm redheaded. I don't tan–I stroke.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead — not sick, not wounded — dead.

It wasn't pride that prevented him from asking for help but a deep aversion to causing more trouble than necessary for those of us who lived in the normal world.

May all beings have happiness and the true causes of happiness; May all beings be free from suffering and the true causes of suffering; May all beings never be parted from the happiness that is without suffering, the great joy of nirvana, liberation; May all beings abide in peace and equanimity, their minds free from attachment and aversion, and free from indifference.

May all beings abide in peace and equanimity, their minds free from attachment and aversion, and free from indifference.

and not for the first time she felt a reassuring shiver of dislike for him.

but i hate this date, and will always hate this day every year fromnow on whenever it comes around

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.