Excessive Optimism Quotes

L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally.

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

I'm not a glass-half-full optimist. I'm a glass-overflowing optimist.

I'm blindingly optimistic. Ravingly optimistic.

I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to them—who have the organ of hope preposterously developed—who are endowed with an uncongealable sanguine temperament—who never feel concerned about the price of corn—and who cannot, by any possibility, discover any but the bright side of a picture—are very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate with 40-horse microscopic power.

Don't be a Pollyanna!

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.