Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Soderbergh

The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.

Tom Stoppard

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Tom Hanks

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Swami Vivekananda

We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

Tommy Hilfiger

These are optimistic pieces, travel pieces that go anywhere

Sigmund Freud

The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

Reed Hastings

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

Sylvester Stallone

The idea of Rambo is kind of intriguing as a closing chapter. When you shoot a film as a sequel to do another sequel it's a whole other tone. But when you know it's the final chapter you try and put in there as much emotion, understanding and closure as you can. So, whereas Rocky is a lighter character and optimistic, Rambo is much darker.

Sylvester Stallone

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

And when thinking about it, not everyone's an optimist quite yet.

Paul Allen

As I said before, I am optimistic about that.

At this point, I'm cautiously optimistic and we'll see what happens.

We are very, very optimistic about Connecticut, particularly Bristol.

Sumner Redstone

We are very optimistic on the rest of the year.

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

Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

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.

Regina Spektor

I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed.

Rick Steves

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Philippe Falardeau

I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certainly more socially and politically engaged films, or films that will happen where the story takes place outside the United States.

Pete Seeger

The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

Peter Mandelson

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

Richard Thaler

People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.

Vinod Khosla

For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we're intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

Vita Sackville-West

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

Sandra Bullock

Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure....

Robin Roberts

Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.

Trey Parker

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.

Ronald Reagan

Now, I happen to be an optimist.

Robert Jordan

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

Wayne Dyer

Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.