The more effort you put into something, the more you value it.Dan Ariely
We are pawns in a game whose forces we largely fail to comprehend.Dan Ariely
The meaning of labor is a fluid concept, and our willingness to work can be motivated by many factors that have nothing to do with money.Dan Ariely
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think.Dan Ariely
The long and short of it is that we're predictably irrational.Dan Ariely
Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless - they are systematic.Dan Ariely
When it comes to acting in our own best interest, we are often less driven by rationality and more by our passions and desires.Dan Ariely
Thought, after all, is nothing but a flash in the middle of a long night. But that flash means everything.Dan Ariely
We're the rats in the lab, the kids in the experiment, and we don't really understand the complicated devices that surround us.Dan Ariely
Whether it's online or offline, whether we're extrapolating from incomplete information or filling out our preferences, we are 'confabulating' - telling ourselves a story that we believe to be true but that might not be so.Dan Ariely