Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Thiel

If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.

Peter Senge

Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

Peter O'Toole

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

Queen Latifah

Those curveballs are always coming-eventually, you learn to hit some of them.

John Maynard Keynes

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

John Lewis

I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

John Lewis

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Julie Andrews

I am an optimistic lady.

Lawrence Summers

Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future.

John Kasich

And, look, think about it, there were 16 people in the race, including a number of governors, and there's only one left. And I think that at the end we have to make sure that we have somebody that can go to that town, change that system, grow employment, change the whole way in which it works and ship power money and influence back to the states. So I'm optimistic about it.

Karen Duffy

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

Juan Manuel Santos

More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will realize that their worst fears will not come true. I'm quite optimistic that Colombians do back an agreement with the FARC.

Paul Kurtz

Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.

P. G. Wodehouse

So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

Paul Begala

I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic.

Martha Beck

I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Paul Hawken

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven’t got a heart.

Paul Hawken

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

Patrick Marber

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related.

Neill Blomkamp

It's just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.

Mike Huckabee

America needs optimistic leadership to revive national soul.

Nick Cannon

I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

Nicki Minaj

I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic

Lydia Lunch

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

Marianne Williamson

It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.

Miguel de Unamuno

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

Nicholas D. Kristof

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

Nelson Mandela

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested...

Olivia Wilde

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

Margaret Atwood

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Kid Cudi

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Obama getting elected.

Ken MacLeod

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.