Optimistic Quotes
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I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
John Lithgow
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
Albert Camus
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Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.
Eleanor Catton
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I have an unreasonably optimistic view of the world.
Anne Wojcicki
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More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
Lev Grossman
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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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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'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.
Carol Burnett
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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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People often ask why I remain so optimistic, even in the face of the complex challenges we are facing in the Jewish world, in Israel and beyond. It's because I am so impressed and inspired by the young people I meet.
Lynn Schusterman
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Although I think I'm relatively happy as a person, I think there's something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I'd say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that's particularly original, other than that we're going to live and die, and terrible things happen.
Ethan Canin
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
William Arthur Ward
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Inside, I'm optimistic.
James Arthur
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Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. ... Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.
Homer Hickam
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I am optimistic about Iraq, I think in five to 10 years we will see it becoming stable.
Jack Straw
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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.
Lucy Powell
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Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.
Gennifer Choldenko
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
Adam Savage