Famous Quotes & Sayings

This will be a more optimistic convention. The tide has turned.

People are getting more optimistic that we have seen the bottoming of the economy.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

Carl Rogers

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Beth Riesgraf

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

Bill Bryson

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Stephen is progressing well. We are optimistic about his prospects for the weekend.

Bob Seger

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

Charlie Pierce

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

We could have as many as 200 orders in 2004. We are optimistic about the opportunities this year especially for the 7E7.

We're very pleased with where the U.S. team is and optimistic about what we can do the rest of the Games.

We are therefore optimistic about the outlook for UBS -- for 2006 and beyond.

We had kind of a rough day. But we're optimistic that things will be better (today).

You can also be pessimistic and worry that there will be so many disagreements that nothing will come of it. Let us remain optimistic in that regard for the time being.

I was really optimistic going into practice. I thought we were a little more comfortable at the plate today.

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

Sumner Redstone

We are very optimistic on the rest of the year.

Jo Nesbo

I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.

John C. Reilly

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

James Norton

I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

John Elkington

So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

Jimmy Wales

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

John Nolan

Am I optimistic or pessimistic? I?d have to say I?m anxious.

Edward de Bono

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

Eckhart Tolle

I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

Jose Saramago

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

Khalil Greene

I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.

Khaled Hosseini

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

Jonathan Nolan

Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.