Quotes About Perspective

Happiness does not have a simple meaning and should not be used as if it does.

La adaptación a una nueva situación, sea buena o mala, consiste en gran parte en pensar cada vez menos en ella. En

Relying on causal thinking about a single case is a source of predictable errors. Taking the statistical view, which we will also call the outside view, is a way to avoid these errors.

We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there is.

Thoughts of any aspect of life are more likely to be salient if a contrasting alternative is highly available.

Adaptation to a new situation, whether good or bad, consists in large part of thinking less and less about it.

I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.

The same bias contributes to the common observation that many members of a collaborative team feel they have done more than their share and also feel that the others are not adequately grateful for their individual contributions.

The explanation is a simple availability bias: both spouses remember their own individual efforts and contributions much more clearly than those of the other, and the difference in availability leads to a difference in judged frequency. The bias is not necessarily self-serving: spouses also overestimated their contribution to causing quarrels, although to a smaller extent than their contributions to more desirable outcomes. The

A veces haremos más que los demás, pero es útil saber que posiblemente tengamos esa sensación cuando cada miembro del equipo también la tiene.

the frame that has traditionally been used in the United States—miles per gallon—provides very poor guidance to the decisions of both individuals and policy makers.

People can overcome some of the superficial factors that produce illusions of truth when strongly motivated to do so.

Something is still missing from this story: the answers need to be fitted to the original questions.

People in their 30s know where the world is going because they're going to do it. I'm in my 80s so I have no idea.

It is more useful to pay attention to people who disagree with you than to pay attention to those who agree.

People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.

Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them.

Wir sind immer in Geschichten

Ich habe diese Welt nicht anders vorgefunden als gehüllt in mein Bewusstsein; wie also kann ich gehen, ohne sie mitzunehmen? Und gesetzt selbst, dass sie alle, Berge, Häuser, Sonne (und ich bezweifle es) durch und für andere Wesen fortbestehen, - es werden andere sein, nicht diese Berge, diese Häuser, diese Sonne.

Wann immer einen die Dinge erschreckten, sei es eine gute Idee, sie zu messen.

Links, sagte Humboldt. Wieso links, fragte Bonpland. Also rechts, sagte Humboldt. Aber warum rechts? Zum Teufel, rief Humboldt, jetzt werde es ihm zu blöd.

Insa, cand au trecut de primele suburbii ale Berlinului si Humboldt si-a inchipuit cum Gauss a cercetat corpurile ceresti prin telescopul sau in tot acest timp - corpuri ceresti ale caror orbite pot fi descrise in formule simple -, n-a mai fost in stare sa spuna care dintre ei doi a ramas acasa si care a colindat lumea.

Die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, und wenn wir sie erkennen, sind sie genauso, wie wenn es andere tun oder keiner.

Aber seien wir doch ehrlich, es ist ein seltsamer Beruf. Ein wenig lächerlich für einen erwachsenen Menschen. Sie sitzen daheim und denken sich Geschichten aus, die nie passiert sind.