Tversky, Amos

"To make a good decision, you must first understand what decision you are making."

"We are all more influenced by chance than we care to admit."

"The greatest investment is in your own understanding."

"We do not fail because we are weak; we fail because we do not learn from failure."

"The mind is a magnificent mystery, and the more we study it, the more mysterious it becomes."

"To be human is to be constantly at war with ourselves."

"We are all prisoners of our own experience."

"The power to change your life lies not in your circumstances but in your perspective."

"We believe we are in control when we are often just along for the ride."

"To understand others, you must first understand yourself."

"The most important decision is not what to do but who to become."

"We are all works in progress, unfinished and always changing."

"The human mind is both the source of our greatest achievements and our greatest failures."

"The mind is a wonderful organ for justifying decisions already taken."

"We are more influenced by our friends than we like to admit."

"Regret is the emotion of comparison."

"People overestimate the importance of their own decisions."

"Anchoring effects shape our judgments more than we realize."

"We see patterns even where none exist - our pattern-seeking mind is both a gift and a curse."

"The availability heuristic makes us prisoners of recent events."

"Overconfidence is one of our most persistent cognitive illusions."

"We judge risks by how easily we recall examples, not by actual probabilities."

"The representativeness heuristic leads us astray more often than we know."

"Memory is not a recording device; it's a reconstruction."

"Framing effects reveal that we don't have stable preferences - our choices depend on how they're presented."

"The sunk cost fallacy keeps us trapped in losing ventures."

"We are equally bad at imagining the future as we are at remembering the past."

"Luck plays a larger role in success than most successful people admit."

"The illusion of control gives us false confidence."

"Causation is constantly confused with correlation in human reasoning."