Optimism Quotes - Page 14

• I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Business, Crazy, Intelligent

  "The Money Man: Super-economist Joseph Stiglitz on how to fix the recession". Interview with Sean O'Grady, www.independent.co.uk. February 9, 2010.

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• What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

  Paul Feig

  Next Day, World, Enthusiasm

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Optimism can be relearnt.

  Marian Keyes

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• Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Children, Simplicity, Wish

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• Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

  David Limbaugh

  Commitment, America, Office

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• Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Lying

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• The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Encouragement, Optimistic, Adversity

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• Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of the nurture I have provided.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Time, Stupid, Gardening

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Lying, Failure, Fall

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “How DID You Die?”

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• With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Rights, Despair

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Rybalka, Michel Contat, Richard C. McCleary (1985). “The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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• I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.

  Sophy Burnham

  Loyalty, Angel, Thinking

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• There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Lines, Crosses

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 11, 2013

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• L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

  James Luther Adams

  Meaningful, Attitude, Achievement

  James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

  William Wordsworth

  Confidence, Men, Yesterday

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.828, Delphi Classics

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• President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.

  Colin Powell

  War, America, Democracy

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

  Francis Maude

  Tunes, Want, Today

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• The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

  Jon Snow

  Jobs, Would Be, Way

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• Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation.

  Robert Noyce

  Innovation, Essentials, Ingredients

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• The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive, Creativity, Law

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Excess, Dinosaurs

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

  Ann Landers

  Success, Dream, Glasses

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• Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

  Jewel

  Fluffy, Cynicism, Smarter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Fighting, Evil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.58, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Patience is the key to content.

  Muhammad

  Patience, Keys

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