Optimistic Quotes
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I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.
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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.
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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.
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What's meant to happen, will happen. This is the most optimistic quote.
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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.
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I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
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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.
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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.
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We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
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I don't feel very optimistic in London.
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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.
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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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.
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In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
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I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.
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I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.
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Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through one's own experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.
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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
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I always was and always will be optimistic.
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There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.
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Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
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I'm hoping for a return to at least partial sanity someday, but I'm not optimistic.
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I would say I'm cautiously optimistic.
