Muyiwa Adegoke Quotes & Sayings

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

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off. — Jessica Lange

You love stories, Emilia. Well, the trees hold hundreds of years of stories. Think of it, everything these trees have seen and felt. All of the secrets are inside of them. — Ruta Sepetys

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? — Orhan Pamuk

Most people will actually tell you, traveling to those exotic places is enjoying life, but really they are spending away and whining away their lives. — Sunday Adelaja

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence. — Willie Jolley

The result, as the journalist Elizabeth Drew noted in the Atlantic Monthly, was "an unabashed act to protect private industry from government regulation." Politicians were far more protective of the narrow interests of tobacco than of the broad interest of public health. Tobacco makers need not have bothered inventing protective filters, Drew wrote drily: Congress had turned out to be "the best filter yet. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see. — S.E. Hinton

Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds. — P.W. Catanese

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. — Orson Scott Card

I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure. — Valentino Rossi

Some teams have a nucleus to build around. The Falcons barely have an embryo. So if you see suspicious looking wires running from the locker room to Dimitroff's office, and the general manager pushes down on the plunger as early as today, don't feel the need to cover your eyes. You've already seen the worst. — Jeff Schultz

Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve. — Scott Adams

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage. — Sue Monk Kidd

Amanda: I guess if you can have faith you can't just have it when the miracles happen. You have to have it when they don't. — Eric Kripke