Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Alison Brie

I'm a generally optimistic person.

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.

Dorothy Fields

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

Claudia Rankine

I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present and a future - and what was in the past no longer exists.

Dalai Lama

I am basically optimistic.

David Wilkerson

Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future.

Danny Boyle

It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher [things] people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.

Danny Wallace

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

Dan Quayle

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

Cornel West

I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse than this. We've got slavery and Jim Crow. We've got workers with no rights up until `35. We're going to bounce back. We are resilient, resisting people. So, it's not pessimism, but it is blues-like. It's not optimistic. We're just prisoners of hope, that's all.

Cornel West

I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.

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.

David Geffen

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

David Eddings

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

Alfred Adler

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

Andrew Zimbalist

I think the press has been sucked in by the rhetoric of brinkmanship. I've been optimistic all along.

We're pretty optimistic that we can reach some sort of partnership.

We're optimistic that we'll restore the rest of them tomorrow.

We're optimistic that we'll get back on track.

We're optimistic that there's going to be a peaceful outcome to all this.

We're optimistic and businesslike. We're working together well.

I think it's partly the war. Pink is very sweet, childish, optimistic color.

Neil McDonald

We're still very optimistic about our site. We think we have the optimum site in Texas.

Amy Heckerling

I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.