Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Kahneman

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Drew Barrymore

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

Don Ward

Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.

Dale Carnegie

Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can lead to poor decisions and invites people to take advantage of you. Instead, be a rational optimist who takes the good with the bad, in hopes of the good ultimately outweighing the bad, and with the understanding that being pessimistic about everything accomplishes nothing. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best - the former makes you sensible, and the latter makes you an optimist.

David Bailey

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

David Attenborough

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

Dana Reeve

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.

Desmond Tutu

I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope.

Alfred Adler

The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.

Chuck D.

I always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call "inties," music distributed via the Internet. The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.

Chuck D.

I always remain optimistic.

Christopher Reeve

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

Christopher Walken

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Anne Sweeney

I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.

Andre Rieu

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

Ambrose Bierce

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Alison Brie

I'm a generally optimistic person.

Jared Diamond

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

Bob Dole

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

Bruce Kent

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

Elie Wiesel

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

Bobbi Brown

I look at a woman and I don't see what's wrong with her. I see what's right.

Bernard Williams

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

David Hume

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

David Dreman

Analysts have always been overly optimistic.

Benjamin Franklin

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.

Arthur C. Clarke

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

Aung San Suu Kyi

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

Daniel Goleman

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.

Antonio Banderas

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

Tim Russert

We're an optimistic people, but something is amiss. People feel it, and I think it partly revolves around the war.

Benjamin Graham

Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic,