We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.
Daniel KahnemanOptimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.
Daniel KahnemanMany ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.
Daniel Kahneman