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Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

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Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger…
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than…
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we…
When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.…
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who…
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social…

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The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle — Robert Sobukwe
Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent… — Nathaniel Branden
We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not… — Vincent de Paul
As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity,... — Robert Montgomery
A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be,… — Mary C. Ames
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting… — Daniel Kahneman
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity,… — William Blake
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of… — Ramana Maharshi
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side… — Mitch Albom
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. — Edmund Spenser

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