Optimistic Quotes
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When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it. And you do that by loving the wacky, endlessly optimistic, enthusiasticall y uninhibited free spirit that is the essence of style, the quintessence of heart, and uniquely you.
Cecelie Berry
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Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
William James
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You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams.
Dara Torres
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I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.
James Murphy
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I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.
Mike Judge
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I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.
James Howard Kunstler
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I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.
Julia Davis
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I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
Edwin Morgan
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One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.
Scott Adams
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I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.
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The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.
William S. Burroughs
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I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.
Richard Jefferson
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When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.
Mark Foster
Foster the People
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Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.
Sandra Bullock
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Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.
Dana Reeve
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In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.
Henry Sy
