There is a tendency to overestimate the positive things in our lives and underestimate the possibility of negative things
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.
You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.
We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.
When a banana gets rotten people love to tell you that you can make banana bread out of it. I have never seen anyone actually do it.
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry — or laugh.
I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
Everything isn't just gonna be okay. It doesn't just have to be good.
Only in an Orwellian [Barack] Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust broken from atop his unicorn as he's peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty. This treaty will not bring peace. You don't reward terrorism. You kill it!
I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream.
Love makes you deluded.
You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway."
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.
I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending
I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.
I'm blindingly optimistic. Ravingly optimistic.
I was so naive to think once you sign, it's all good, and you are a superstar.
There is a long history of research showing that people are overconfident about their abilities. But it turns out that people in general are not overconfident about their abilities; people with a fixed mindset are overconfident.
Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
But you're not really allowed to complain about any of this, You're just supposed to be grateful. And obviously-I get it. You're lucky and you should appreciate your luck. But, I mean, it just seems if you even hint that there's a bad side to any of this people will be like-Liar! I guess it's because people want to have it as a dream
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!
