Quotes about optimism
optimism attention annoying
Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention. Maureen Dowd
optimism cures
Optimism is a cure for many things. Michael J. Fox
optimism sometimes habit
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off. Michael Lewis
optimism joyous constant
I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M. Michael Stipe
optimism mind mirth
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Joseph Addison
optimism pessimism middle
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all. Hector Hugh Munro
optimism world way
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi
optimism promise one-day
I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you. Jake Gyllenhaal
optimism people challenges
So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in. Sonia Sotomayor
optimism flow built
Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions. Tim Brown
optimism secret has-beens
The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger. Robert Anton Wilson
optimism looks dread
I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. Robert Anton Wilson
optimism fearless enough
He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything. Sarah Dessen
optimism stronger use
Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use. Robin Roberts
optimism creative mind
You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves. Yanni
optimism enemy saving
Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer Warren Buffett
optimism today foundation
May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today. Wale
optimism disease
optimism is a disease Salman Rushdie
optimism hazards computer
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment. Kent Beck
optimism choices speak
Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. Ralph Waldo Emerson
optimism soul limits
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. Ralph Waldo Emerson
optimism possibility pessimist
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. Lewis Mumford
optimism mind behavior
Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior. Larry Elder
optimism mind anticipation
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. Samuel Johnson
optimism effort battle
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun. Robert Louis Stevenson
optimism helping
Optimism is a huge help when it comes to health. Tia Mowry
optimism walking-dead soul
Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system. Sam Keen
optimism focus ability
Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from. Simon Sinek
optimism complaining complaints
Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism. Simon Sinek
optimism looks kind
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are. Tony Kushner
optimism inevitable
Find optimism in the inevitable Rem Koolhaas
optimism imagine pessimist
A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu Victor Cherbuliez
optimism people saws
In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip. Rick Perlstein