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• There’s always some level of optimism in every single song.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Levels

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• Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.

  Tim Brown

  Flow, Built, Knows

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• An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Uplifting, Dream, Creative

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• Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

  Sam Keen

  Walking Dead, Soul, Departed

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• A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

  Jane McGonigal

  Opportunity, Emotional, Opposites

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.30, Penguin

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• Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

  Jane McGonigal

  Desire, Belief, Obstacles

  "Gaming can make a better world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.

  Jane McGonigal

  Believe, Playing Games, Resilience

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• There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Running, Dream, Men

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• I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.

  Anna Sui

  Fashion, Feels, Exuberance

  "Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear: Anna Sui" by Laird Borrelli-Persson, www.vogue.com. September 16, 2009.

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• I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.

  Ruskin Bond

  Memories, Boys, Journey

  Ruskin Bond (1988). “The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories”, p.80, Penguin Books India

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• When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.

  Jon Gordon

  Believe, Focus, Challenges

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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• Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.

  Jon Gordon

  Today, Impossible Becomes Possible, Levels

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living.

  Taitetsu Unno

  Buddhism, Path, Forgotten

  Taitetsu Unno (2002). “Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turn into Gold”, p.17, Harmony

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• If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.

  Paula Scher

  Growth, Get Up, Capacity

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• Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

  Max Lucado

  Insecurity, Doubt, Enjoy

  Max Lucado (2009). “A Heart Like Jesus”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls toward the future, it's what lets you pull on the line and reach what you're aiming for and head in the right direction. Hope is also theological: God is there, too.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Anchors, Lines

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• Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

  Alex Steffen

  Thinking, Political, Benefits

  "The Bright Green City". Interview with Arnie Cooper, www.thesunmagazine.org. April 2010.

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• Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

  Amby Burfoot

  Giving Up, Attitude, Struggle

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• Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Outcomes, Life Is, Not Sure

  Hilary Thayer Hamann (2010). “Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

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• I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.

  David Warlick

  Teacher, Teaching, Heart

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• Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or a new experience to discover the truth. People who lie to themselves for different reasons are oftentimes trying to avoid something or escape blame for things they have done.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Lying, Believe, Passion

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• Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

  Martin Seligman

  Fighting, Achievement, Tools

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• As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to come. Efforts by governments to solve the underlying problems responsible for the crisis have still not gotten very far, and the 'stress tests' that governments have used to encourage optimism about our financial institutions were of questionable thoroughness.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Stress, Believe, Writing

  Robert J. Shiller (2013). “Finance and the Good Society”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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• Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Life Changing, Ignorance

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