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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. -- Robbie Williams
Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident. -- Daniel Kahneman
Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes. -- Harold Washington
We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments. -- Daniel Kahneman
Being Overconfident often exists when one tries to cover up one's insecurities without facing them. -- Edmond Mbiaka
There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident. -- Kiele Sanchez
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. -- Neil Armstrong
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. -- Alberto Salazar
People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others. -- Daniel Gilbert
We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident! -- Joel Greenblatt
The nerves are good... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident. -- Myles Jury
People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick. -- Richard Thaler
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. -- Tatchakorn Yeerum
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. -- Richard Thaler
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. -- Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart
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
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
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. -- Jean Seberg
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. -- Roger Federer
If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Jack Ma
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. -- Stella Chess
Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego. -- Tom Chappell
I am not overconfident. -- Romano Prodi
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak. -- Nate Silver
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. -- Tatchakorn Yeerum
Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery. -- Andrew Lo
I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours. -- Amy Chua
The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large. -- Daniel Kahneman
Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. -- Joseph T. Hallinan

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