“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”
Variant: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 38, "Thinking about life", page 402 (ISBN 9780141033570).
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Israeli-American psychologist 1934Related quotes

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