Planning Fallacy Quotes

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

Daniel Kahneman

#2. 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.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

Daniel Kahneman

#4. I don't live by people's compliments because if I live by their compliments, I will die by their criticism. I have learnt not to live by bread alone; not by what people can feed me, I proceed from every word that comes out from the mouth of God.

Patience Johnson

#5. The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

Mark Jason Dominus

#6. Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.

Steve McConnell

#7. If you are not able to 'adjust everywhere', then even the moksha,that you have in your hand, will go away.

Dada Bhagwan

#8. Dancing every night enhances a positive energy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

Alexander MacLaren

#10. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

James Russell Lowell

#11. Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess

Ian Christie

#12. I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Bryan Adams

#13. That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

Brian K. Vaughan

#14. I'm a real food know-it-all.

Arthur Schwartz

#15. I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

Stephen King

#16. Be Prepared For Life's Emergencies. Always Arm Yourself With God's Word.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#17. You're making a mistake, shithead, Avasarala said, and dropped the connection.

James S.A. Corey

#18. But you're kind of like a great book ... you know, you pick up a book at the bookstore because it has a beautiful cover ... but it's what's inside that pulls you in.

Miranda Kenneally