"As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it……" — Michael Lewis

"As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off."

— Michael Lewis

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64 Quotes by Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The…
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The…
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children…
When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.
He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his…
My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like…
It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar…
One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one…
Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.…
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national…

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate… — Aristotle
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the… — Aristotle
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also… — David Attenborough
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this… — Chinua Achebe
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you… — Margaret Atwood
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a… — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon

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