Optimistic Quotes
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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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In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.
Ray Bradbury
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I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.
Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
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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 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'm hoping for a return to at least partial sanity someday, but I'm not optimistic.
David Rosenfelt
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It's all about believing in yourself and knowing your worth and being optimistic and really just loving yourself for who you are.
Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins
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Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.
Elif Batuman
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I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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We continue to be optimistic about our long-term prospects for profitable growth.
George Fisher Cannibal Corpse
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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.
Sergio Leone
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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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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
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Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.
Eric Dane
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"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.
Dan Gillmor
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Inside, I'm optimistic.
James Arthur
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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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I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
John Cusack
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I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!
Lydia Lunch
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The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.
Wendy Ewald
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I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.
Faris Badwan
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
William Arthur Ward