Alan Greenspan Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Imbalance Quotes

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

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My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

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I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

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Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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