-Geena Davis
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- “Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be. We also tend to exaggerate our ability to forecast the future, which fosters optimistic overconfidence. In terms of its consequences for decisions, the optimistic bias may well be the most significant of the cognitive biases. Because optimistic bias can be both a blessing and a risk, you should be both happy and wary if you are temperamentally optimistic.”
- “The quality of life does not depend on happiness alone, but also on what one does to be happy. If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to its fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess…Without dreams, without risk, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.”
- “Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.”
- “It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
- “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”