Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elton John

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

Jennifer James

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

Jeff Cooper

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

Jeff Bezos

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

George Saunders

I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

Jeff Koons

I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

James Buchan

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

Jeannette Walls

Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

George W. Bush

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

Felix Adler

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.

Fay Vincent

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

Eugene O'Neill

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

Harold Wilson

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Winston Churchill

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else

Frederick Wiseman

I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

Freeman Dyson

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

Everything remains challenging in telecom. I'm not optimistic in the near-term.

Everything remains challenging in telecom, ... I'm not optimistic in the near-term.

It would be optimistic to say we'd get to 2 million.

We are cautiously optimistic that we can secure more MK services in the future.

We're very optimistic that it will be, but you have to go through the process.

I'm not optimistic we can somehow diplomatically get them to give them up.

In his career, he's cautiously or guardedly optimistic when he does new things. He's not a pie-in-the-sky idealist. He's one of the most realistic assessors of what's really going on that you'll meet.

I'm not as optimistic as I was, but it's not all over. The parties are still talking,

It's tracking very strong. We feel very optimistic about this season.

This is the most optimistic manufacturing survey we've seen in some time.

Sterling Marlin

This is the most optimistic I've been in a long time. I've got some unfinished business.

They're optimistic about the second half, and I think that's reasonable.

Buzz Aldrin

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

Janet Fitch

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Jane Roberts

In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.

Joel Coen

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.

Jenny Holzer

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.