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• Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.

  Jalen Rose

  Basketball, Team, Being Positive

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• Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

  David Deutsch

  Stars, People, Progress

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• We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

  Peter Thiel

  Needs, Might, Pessimism

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• New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.

  Jonathan Mahler

  Sports, New York, Team

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• In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the very root of our being. Dr. Bruteau is a philosopher of great measure whose work should be required reading for all who seek the deepest truth about themselves.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Reading, Roots, Contemplative Life

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• The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Powerful, Moral Fiber

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• We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.

  David Jeremiah

  Eye, Hands, People

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• If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.

  Jack Layton

  Heart, Ideas, Should

  Jack Layton's Statement about his temporary resignation as NDP leader, www.theglobeandmail.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

  Bill Crawford

  People, Worry, Risk

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• Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

  Hyman Rickover

  Stupid, Stupidity

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Character, Trying, Negative

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• Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good.

  Dan Thompson

  Beautiful, Discovery, Ideas

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• Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

  Robert Hewison

  Taken, Modernism, Postmodern

  Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

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• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

  Joseph Conrad

  Philosophical, Ideas, Doubt

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Personal Record”, p.9, Booklassic

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• Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

  Elon Musk

  Hell, Pessimism, Bent

  "Now 0-for-3, SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit". Interview with Carl Hoffman, www.wired.com. August 5, 2008.

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• Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality.

  Joe Kraus

  Reality, Balance, Facts

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• Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Hopeful, Pessimism, Invincible

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• It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Graduation, Determination

  Emory University commencement speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

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• Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

  Helen Keller

  Cheating, Evil, Effort

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.

  David M. Raup

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

  Charles A. Reich

  Depth, Fundamentals, Innocence

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.

  Shalom Auslander

  Honesty, Passion, Stubborn

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• Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

  C.D. Payne

  Morning, Giving, Despair

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• Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.

  Joyce Johnson

  Struggle, Order, Humanity

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• Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism that sinks its roots into an awareness of our freedom, and the sure knowledge of the power of grace. It is an optimism that leads us to make demands on ourselves, to struggle to respond at every moment to God's call.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Struggle, Roots

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