Steve Jobs Quotes

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

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• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Relationship
  • Optimist
  • European

• You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Optimist

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lion
  • Optimist
  • Scenery

• Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Noble

• The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Optimist

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Information
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Humans
  • Solitude
  • Aloneness

• There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Difference
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Purpose
  • Unique
  • Humans

• For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Die
  • Humans
  • Changes

• Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Life
  • Music
  • Struggle

• There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

  

  Da'Vine Joy Randolph
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Humans

• In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Work
  • Women
  • Hope

• Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humans
  • Human Beings
  • Snob

• You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • May
  • Humans
  • Rational

• If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Nature
  • Humans
  • Buddhist

• I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Respect
  • Humans
  • Compassion

• I'd like to think that my scripts are more significant than maybe the Bible or the book that the Jews use, whatever it's called. And that's only when I'm having an off day.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Bible

• I am a magpie. My eye collects details.

  

  Patrick Cox
  • Eye
  • Details
  • Collects

• That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.

  

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
  • Style
  • Leadership
  • Aggressive

• I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Humans
  • Noble
  • Optimist