People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.
Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.
I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.
Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.
If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.
So many people got caught up in the excitement and the promise of the Internet that they kind of lost sight of their senses.
I am the worst judge of how a movie is going to do. I always have great and ambitious hopes, but none of them see the light of day.
Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow’.
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!
I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so how come they didn't get it? But that's the way it always is.
Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.
