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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
John Ortberg
Hope
Leader
More
Both
No-One
Contagious
Infectious
Than
Pessimism
Deeply
Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.
Najib Razak
Future
Generation
Opportunities
Losing
Nation
Control
Young
Extremism
Muslims
See
Risk
Feel
Leads
Over
Disengagement
Stake
Apathy
Themselves
Pessimism
Many
Lives
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
Patricia Ireland
You
Enthusiasm
Energy
Think
Lead
Optimism
Pessimism
Cynicism
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
Ron Fournier
Every
Obama
New
Blending
Said
Years
Optimism
America
Realism
Cycle
Pessimism
Brings
The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Life
Garden
Wonderful
Older
Think
Final
Everything
Books
Shadows
Seem
Light-Hearted
Most
Conclusion
Were
End
Quite
Closing
Note
Pessimism
Deep
Novels
Bright
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
World
Mother
Bitterness
Living
Gloom
Were
Wolves
Scratched
Doom
Where
Door
Storms
Poor
Pessimism
I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do they see opportunity as essentially everywhere and unlimited? It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.
Tobias Lutke
People
Opportunity
Unlimited
Everywhere
Find
See
Strongest
Something
Well
Optimism
Essentially
Whether
Predictor
Pessimism
Who
Rough
Compete
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.
Wole Soyinka
Depression
Future
Me
Every
Others
Meet
Mine
Way
Bit
Out
Seek
About
Come
Talk
Felt
Were
Left
Same
Pessimism
Who
Found
Acute
Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Future
About
Tends
Underestimate
America
Capacity
Pessimism
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