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Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Awareness category:
- Stumbling on Happiness...
The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Choices category:
- Stumbling on Happiness...
The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Criticism category:
People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Friendship category:
My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Happiness category:
-Stumbling on Happines...
We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Importance category:
-Stumbling on Happiness...
Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer? (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Memory category:
To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Originality category:
If you are like most people, then, like most people, you don't know you're like most people. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Pleasure category:
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Questions category:
Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for? (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Reality category:
-Stumbling on Happiness...
'Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
Daniel T. Gilbert - From the Seeing category:
-Stumbling on Happiness...
To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
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