Heather Brooke Quotes

I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.

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• In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Sports
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• Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • School

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Face
  • Institutions
  • Fraud

• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Day
  • End

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Change
  • Period

• I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Person
  • Really
  • Optimistic

• Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • God
  • Men
  • Dark

• I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Optimistic
  • I Can
  • Hopeful

• I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Me
  • Optimistic
  • Go

• To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • You
  • Something
  • Unknown

• I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Technology
  • Optimistic
  • Grandparents

• I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Business
  • Optimistic

• When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Vision
  • Attitude
  • Optimistic

• When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'

  

  Marc Faber
  • People
  • Gold
  • Optimistic

• I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

  

  Bruce Kent
  • Optimistic

• A lot of the things that happened to me came out of the blue, but I'm exactly the same person now as I was when I was sick. I'm still a very optimistic person.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Sick
  • Blue
  • Optimistic

• It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Different
  • Optimistic

• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Time
  • Money
  • Career

• Sometimes the world is better off if one always defaults to option number two.

  

  Anne Mallory
  • World
  • Option
  • Defaults

• I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Optimistic
  • Institutions
  • Individuals