Daniel Gilbert Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Life, Change, Mistake

  "When Do We Become The Final Version of Ourselves?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Rez, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

• The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Mistake, Trying, Patterns

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.16, Vintage

• Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Mistake, Imagination, Facts

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.94, Vintage

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