Confidence And Overconfidence Quotes

#1. Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could. - Author: Chip Heath

#2. One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy. - Author: Benedict Cumberbatch

#3. Overconfidence: As the WYSIATI rule implies, neither the quantity nor the quality of the evidence counts for much in subjective confidence. - Author: Daniel Kahneman

#4. If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind. - Author: Mark Twain

#5. I imagine these men sitting in fashion control centers around the world thinking of new ways to torture women, new ways to make them wince twenty years from now when they look at old photographs of themselves. - Author: Cristina Garcia

#6. Don't let failures deter you. It only means the next time your chance of succeeding is greater!" LJBurson Marcy: A continuing series . . . - Author: Linda Burson

#7. You can't ever get too much of Paris. - Author: Vicki Lesage

#8. Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other. - Author: Matthew Henry

#9. I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly. - Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi

#10. I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place. - Author: Baz Luhrmann

#11. People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy ... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence. - Author: Daniel Kahneman

#12. What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality? - Author: Clyde DeSouza

#13. It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full. - Author: Wilbur Smith

#14. Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence. - Author: Warren Eyster