Habit Quote by Michael Lewis Download Open image “As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.” — Michael Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Habit Habits Idiotic Optimism Seems Sometimes
Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it. — David Richo Copy Share Image
Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“At other places management says, ‘Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?’ Lewie was not only willing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“BILLY WOULD SAY later that his wife left him because she was unnerved by his intensity—that she could even see it in his hands… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Habits form and habits grow, Then some time later, habits go.” — Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay Copy Share Image
It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news… — Matt Cutts Copy Share Image
Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies. — Tamilisai Soundararajan Copy Share Image
