Optimism Quotes

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
You People Rest Some More Feel Genetically Bias Normal Optimism Optimistic Than Person Endowed Us Fortunate Lucky Lucky Person Hardly Need
I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.' Colum McCann
Darkness Enough Says Takes Blind Optimism Very Not Interested Interested Then
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny. Naomi Wolf
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Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression. Ronald Reagan
Today Democracy Enemies Easily Instruments Because Refined Optimism Repression Less Vigorous
What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down. Rudy Giuliani
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I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism. Sylvester Stallone
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. Twyla Tharp
Experience Old Degree Some More Optimism Than Behind Energizing Plain Much Certain Certain Degree Cynicism
True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt. Bibi Bourelly
Back Back Up Dare Attempt Lifts True Failed Leads Also Up Optimism After Again
I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top. Brad Feld
Good Top Out Guys Tend Come Read Optimism Optimistic Optimistic Person Person Holds Bury Movies Cynicism Eventually Watch Good Guys
It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty. Drew Houston
Love You Tolerance Risk Uncertainty Misconception Entrepreneurs Blind Go Optimism Expect Want Actually Things Need
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. George Santayana
Time Evil Ruins Total Absolutely Existence Optimism Any Anywhere
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. J. G. Ballard
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight. Karen Abbott
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I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. Michael Jordan
Positive Work Attitude Hope Hard Work Positive Attitude People Goals Touched Share Persevere Optimism Hard Millions Desire Millions Of People
Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive. Morris Gleitzman
Power Own Experiment Books Alive Possibilities Through Shape Limited Optimism Children Lives Kept
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. Stephen Ambrose
War World Made Cold Cold War Atomic Atomic Bomb Continue Optimism American Hard Bomb World War World War II
In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken. Whitney Tilson
Life Persistence Confidence Otherwise Gives Higher Allow Abundance Undertaken Motivation Accomplish Optimism Might Us Things
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place. Alethea Kontis
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The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans. Arancha Gonzalez
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If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point. Astro Teller
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The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism. Bari Weiss
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My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top. Brad Feld
Good Top Out Guys Come Optimism Holds Eventually Good Guys
I want to have a sense of openness and optimism, even if that means being open to things that are potentially dark. Carrie Brownstein
Dark Sense Potentially Open Openness Optimism Being Want Means Even Things
We can all think we're discriminated against, and I'm sure many of us are. But I see a ton of optimism in corporate America around the advancement and retention of women. Cathy Engelbert
Women Think Corporate Corporate America See Retention Advancement Sure Around Optimism Discriminated America Against Us Many Ton
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