Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Brooks

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. We [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.

Benjamin Graham

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

Brandon Sanderson

Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.

Tim Russert

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

Eddie Vedder

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

Adam Savage

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Giancarlo Fisichella

We are optimistic that this problem will not re-occur.

We are optimistic he can pass it, but if not, we would like to put him in a JC.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

Alberto Gonzales

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.

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.

I am relatively optimistic that by the end of the day there will be statements that we have substantive agreements.

Rodrigo Rato

I find these views optimistic to the point of willful blindness.

I don't have any reason to be optimistic here.

Cameron Sinclair

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

Al Yankovic

I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

Alain de Botton

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

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.

Colin Powell

Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.

I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.

Albert Camus

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Daniel Kahneman

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

Daniel Kahneman

Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

Daniel Kahneman

People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

Daniel Kahneman

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.

Daniel Kahneman

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

Daniel Kahneman

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

Daniel Kahneman

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

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.

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.