David Myers quotes

“Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.”
-- David Myers

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“There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.”
-- David Myers

Source : Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.209, A&C Black

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“Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.”
-- David Myers

Source : David G. Myers (2008). “Intuition: Its Powers and Perils”, p.85, Yale University Press

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“Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.”
-- David Myers

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“Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations”
-- David Myers

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“My number one goal was to always have to opportunity to have an international business of some sort, opening in Paris, opening in Tokyo, opening in Singapore for example, that was always my dream, and so it came about.”
-- David Myers

Source : Source: www.signaturemagazine.com.au

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“I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them.”
-- David Myers

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“For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.”
-- David Myers

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“My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.”
-- David Myers

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“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.”

“... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.”

Source : Anne Perry (2011). “Callander Square”, p.184, Open Road Media

“The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.”

“Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.”

“Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.”

“I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.”

“This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.”

“It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.173, MIT Press

“Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.”