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

• I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
  • Humans
  • Interested

• 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

• To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • May
  • Humans
  • Littles

• 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

• High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Culture
  • Humans
  • Sentiments

• The best tunes are songs with a face. You recognize them. You know them. It’s like a person. They have a face that’s outstanding. Other songs don’t have a face. You just hear them, that’s all. The really good ones are few and far between.

  

  Cindy Walker
  • Best
  • Songs
  • Face

• Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Shows
  • Hated
  • Objects

• The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Lost
  • Value
  • Chance

• It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Honor
  • Interest
  • Firsts

• 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