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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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'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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I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
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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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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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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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I am optimistic about Iraq, I think in five to 10 years we will see it becoming stable.
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.
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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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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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I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.
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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 think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.
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I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.
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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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I don't feel very optimistic in London.
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In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
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Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.
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I would say I'm cautiously optimistic.
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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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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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I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.
