Unfounded Expectations Quotes

… they made the cardinal error of extrapolation. Forecasters assumed that recent trends would continue indefinitely and that hot economies would stay hot…. Euphoria overcame sound judgment, a process that has doomed economic forecasting for as long as experts have been doing it.

I assume everyone is going to hate my music before listening to it or hate me before meeting me because of where I come from and my name - it's not Smith or Taylor.

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

Nobody is convinced that Johnny Depp goes to Walmart dressed as Sweeney Todd, but everyone expects us to.

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster.

I'm not counting any chickens.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.