Optimism Quotes - Page 17

• Optimism is lack of information.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Information

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• Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

  Karl Popper

  Chance, Responsible, Duty

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• Make your optimism come true.

  Christian D. Larson

  Attitude, Optimistic, Positive Thinking

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.8, Penguin

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• This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.

  Alan AtKisson

  Believe, People, Groups

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• For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.

  Lionel Shriver

  Past, Men, Booty

  Lionel Shriver (2007). “The Post-Birthday World”, Harper

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• I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Play, Long

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• I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

  Denis Hayes

  Parental, Faith Based

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• Attitudes of optimism, of "let them be", and of joy in watching and helping another life develop and blossom will help parents relish their parenting role and will provide the resilience necessary to navigate turbulent times.

  Timothy Carey

  Attitude, Joy, Parent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Demonstrating faith and optimism in the child or adolescent's ability to work things out in their own time and in their own way can be very difficult but it is possible to do this while also offering assistance.

  Timothy Carey

  Children, Offering, Way

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

  John Rzeznik

  Thinking, Albums, Certain

  "John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

  Guillermo del Toro

  America, Gold, Blooming

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing that had fueled these utopian communities was a literal belief, and not just a general sense of optimism, that the earth was about to become a paradise. That idea cannot hold water after the war.

  Christine Jennings

  War, Ideas, Water

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.

  George Pattison

  Strong, Growing Up, War

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Mean, Shapes, Cynicism

  "How to Be a Better Person in 2015, According to the Creators of Portlandia". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. January 8, 2015.

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• Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says "don't worry - everything will be just fine" and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  Ramez Naam

  Two, Worry, Action

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

  Paula Nelson

  Money, Acceptance, America

  Paula Nelson (1977). “The Joy of Money: The Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

  Alex Tan

  Inspirational, Life, Get Well

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• An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

  Don Marquis

  Guy, Experience, Definitions

  Archy and mehitabel "certain maxims of archy" (1927)

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• An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

  Don Marquis

  Optimist, Persons

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• Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side.

  Mike Dooley

  Patience, Worry, Sides

  FaceBook post by Mike Dooley from Jul 26, 2012

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• I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.

  Vandana Shiva

  Believe, People, Lessons

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.

  Mark Hoppus

  Beach, Sunset, Thinking

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's new album 'California'". Coup De Main interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I think optimism is a moral imperative.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Moral, Imperatives

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Even though it was January, in Los Angeles it was beautiful and sunny and the blue skies were out and it was hot everyday, so I think it was just a product of our environment. And California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else. But there's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

  Mark Hoppus

  Beautiful, Dream, Beach

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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