"A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure."

-- Daniel Kahneman

#Optimistic Quotes #Risk Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.”
“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
“It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.”
“My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.”

Source : Smedley Butler's reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize WWI veterans (for military support) in a fascist-coup of FDR, as related by Butler in testimony before Congress, 1934.
“Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.”

Source : James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.443, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.”
“Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.”
“Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.”

Source : Charles Webster Leadbeater (1909). “Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern”

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