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The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.
Daniel Kahneman
You
Better
Will
Assume
Outcome
Follow
Scenario
Know
Make
Fallacy
Which
Plan
Then
Should
Your
Planning
Even
Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.
Daniel Kahneman
Best
You
Sometimes
Will
Feelings
Big
Those
Share
Understand
Context
Overly
Impressed
Friends
Decisions
Them
Your
Help
Who
Serve
Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.
Daniel Kahneman
Life
You
Financial
Burden
Insecurity
Important
Think
Mood
Find
Yes
Very
Maybe
Satisfaction
Income
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
David Seabury
Life
Love
You
Will
Control
Guide
Those
Only
Disappears
Invite
Qualities
Force
Nor
According
Deny
Goes
Cannot
Even
Expression
Presence
He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
David Seabury
Others
Consider
Considerate
Seldom
He
Himself
Who
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
David Seabury
Thoughts
You
Simple
Think
Complex
Seem
Through
Obscure
Clear
Comradeship
Make
Intellectual
Quite
Where
Place
Requires
Your
There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
David Viscott
You
Somewhere
Shine
Find
Some
Up
Difference
Where
Place
Your
Expressed
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
David Viscott
Time
You
Hurt
Natural
Yourself
Matter
Will
Enthusiasm
Face
Odds
Think
Other
Way
Prolonged
Takes
Fail
Invite
Limit
Effort
Trying
Any
Any Other Way
Unfriendly
Again
Succeed
Your
Consequence
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono
You
Business
School
Mind
Will
Believe
Analyze
See
Totally
Give
Data
Only
Wrong
Almost
Almost All
New
Ideas
Most
Executives
New Ideas
Scientists
Graduates
Unfortunately
Business School
Many
Prepared
Belief
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
Edward de Bono
Future
You
Will
Predict
Appropriate
Striving
Possible
High
Futures
Must
Be Prepared
Cost
More
Various
Instead
Deal
Accurately
Cannot
Then
Lower
Flexible
Prepared
Right
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
Edward de Bono
Thinking
Increased
Percent
Hours
Employment
Five
Unemployed
Just
Youngsters
Teaching
People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
People
Signs
Become
Complete
Crippled
See
Vital
Longer
Blind
Deaf
Hear
Exist
After
Again
We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Good
People
World
Will
Good People
Assume
Often
Ills
Suffer
When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Fear
Impossible
Guilt
Older
Enough
Omnipotence
Omnipotent
Our
Diminishes
Possible
Strongest
Powerful
Wishes
Make
Begin
Loved
Loved One
Realize
Really
Grow
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
Death
Day
You
Fear
Nothing
Live
Say
Greatest
Always
Experiences
Then
Your
Each
Each Day
Ever
Right
I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Eyes
Own
Believe
Ears
See
My Own
Only
Hear
I'm going to dance in all the galaxies.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Dance
Going
Galaxies
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
Education
Age
Every
Society
Responsible
Only
Adult
Feel
Children
Should
Why
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Erich Fromm
Man
Culture
Weakness
Condition
Human
Biological
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich Fromm
Love
Love Is
People
Personality
Value
Nothing
Market
Considering
Favorable
Exchange
Between
Most
Expect
Get
Often
Who
Two
Two People
We are what we love.
Erik Erikson
Love
A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.
Erik Erikson
Man
He
Represent
Conflicts
Really
Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform.
Eugene Kennedy
Age
Pressure
Made
Energy
Fighting
Down
Spending
Relentless
Hierarchy
John
Restoration
Following
John Paul
Had
He
Part
Come
Concept
Known
His
Reform
Which
Central
Against
Paul
Function
Program
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall
Love
Sex
Down
Every
Other
Individual
He
Himself
Lacks
Loves
Teaches
Theory
Each
Each Individual
Plato
Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.
Geoffrey Hinton
Will
Before
Computers
Understand
American
Sarcasm
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
George Weinberg
Hope
You
Abandon
Never
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