Miscalculations Book Quotes & Sayings

Your chances of getting hit by lighting go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say Storms suck!! — Johnny Carson

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy. — Dennis Miller

When forecasting the outcomes of risky projects, executives too easily fall victim to the planning fallacy. In its grip, they make decisions based on delusional optimism rather than on a rational weighting of gains, losses, and probabilities. They overestimate benefits and underestimate costs. They spin scenarios of success while overlooking the potential for mistakes and miscalculations. As a result, they pursue initiatives that are unlikely to come in on budget or on time or to deliver the expected returns - or even to be completed. In this view, people often (but not always) take on risky projects because they are overly optimistic about the odds they face. I will return to this idea several times in this book - it probably contributes to an explanation of why people litigate, why they start wars, and why they open small businesses. — Daniel Kahneman

534. Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living. Only those who died and those who will never be born are absolutely safe. — Alija Izetbegovic

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody. — Irwin Shaw

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art. — Choi Hong Hi

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about. — Dakota Fanning

There are a lot of Ellroy lifts, man. This guy went to school. But then there's a willful thing that comes over me - God gives it to me - where I go, "That's real nice, let's just go home, pat yourself on the back, good dog, good dog, and wake up in the morning and go to work." — James Ellroy

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing. — Ariel Gore

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made. — Terry Zwigoff