"People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence."

-- Daniel Kahneman

#Confidence Quotes #People Quotes #Planning Quotes

“I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.”
“Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.”
“I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'”
“Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.”
“It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.”
“Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy ...”

Source : Gillian Roberts (2011). “Caught Dead in Philadelphia”, p.9, Untreed Reads
“I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.”
“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.394, Oxford University Press, USA

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