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Power Quotes - Page 60

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

"Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.

Charles Capps (1981). “Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen”, Harrison House Incorporated

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

Attributed in "Men of Mathematics" by E. T. Bell, 1937.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.131, Crux Publishing Ltd

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Drowning Pool”, p.28, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

N. Scott Momaday, Charles Woodard (1989). “Ancestral voice: conversations with N. Scott Momaday”

You have a right not to be negative.

Maurice Nicoll (1974). “Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky”