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  • Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

    Hot   Too Much   Way  
  • I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn't really matter who I play in the final. I'll be in there as the big favorite. But I play my best in the finals, in the important matches. That's why I'm number one. There's no secret...I'm not overconfident, but very confident.

    Play   Numbers   Secret  
  • He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.” “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.

    Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.240, Random House Books for Young Readers
  • Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

  • I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

  • If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.

    Humility   Past   People  
    Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart (2001). “The Shape of Irish History”
  • I really don't (stay calm) all the time. I just try to. Part of not just racing but in life, I try not to let the highs be too high and the lows be too low. I try to stay somewhere right in the middle. In racing it's not always easy to do. You can get too excited or overconfident when things are going good and it's easy to get too far in the ditch when things are going bad.

    Source: www.beliefnet.com
  • We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!

    Joel Greenblatt (2011). “The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success”, p.133, John Wiley & Sons
  • We live in a world of self-deprecation, and while it’s healthy to make fun of ourselves from time to time, it bothers me when I see women of all ages belittling their accomplishments because they don’t want to appear boastful or overconfident. You don’t see a lot of guys out there underplaying their strengths or making light of what they’re good at, so why should women? While I get that there’s a fine line between owning your accomplishments and reciting every line of your résumé, there is absolutely no shame in being proud of what you’ve managed to achieve! Own it!

    Fun   Light   Self  
  • There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.

    Hate   Men   Guy  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.

  • Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

  • I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

    Thinking   People   Risk  
    "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.
  • I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

    Edgar Rice Burroughs (2012). “Barsoom”, p.9589, eStar Books
  • The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

  • Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

  • Do not grow overconfident following a few victories. Should you not rely upon the Holy Spirit you will soon be thrown once more into a distressing experience. With holy diligence you must cultivate an attitude of dependency.

    Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.204, Christian Fellowship Publishers
  • What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.

    Girl   Voice   Accents  
  • Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of failure. Sometimes they act bold, to counteract their imperious yearnings to remain children. They are impulsive, impetuous, moody, disagreeable, overdemanding, underappreciative. If you don't understand them, remember, they don't understand themselves most of the time.

    Children   Feelings   May  
  • We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

    Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. January 30, 2013.
  • Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

    Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.67, Vintage
  • Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

    Thinking   Wells   Bites  
    "Apollo 11 crew recalls giant leap 35 years later". Interview With Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2004.
  • I'm unapologetic not because I'm strong-willed or overconfident, I'm unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I can do, no one I can please. I am a person with a strong sense of being, that's all.

  • Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

  • I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.

    Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.
  • People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

  • The nerves are good... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.

  • Given that level of responsibility with your 25-year old or 35-year-old chef, it's just quite nice to see how they handled that exposure. Not every chef deals with it properly; they get slightly excited, a little bit overconfident and then they miss out on the most important part.

    Source: www.crushable.com
  • Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

  • The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

    "Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Olivier Sibony and Dan Lovallo, www.mckinsey.com. March 2010.
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