Optimism Quotes - Page 39

• I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there. The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I'm involved in all of that stuff.

  Bill Walton

  Teamwork, Book, Grateful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mind, Lollipop, Placebo

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?

  David Remnick

  Adults, Responsible, Posture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Past, Race

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Left

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The stock market has hit record numbers, as you know, and there has been a tremendous surge of optimism in the business world, which is, to me, means something much different than it used to. It used to mean, oh, that's good. Now it means, that's good for jobs.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Mean, Numbers

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Optimism is necessary even if you don't instinctively feel it.

  Tim Winton

  Feels, Ifs

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Whether you're in the water staring up at a looming set or standing in front of 15000 people at a demo, you have to manufacture some courage and a sense of optimism in order to get through the moment, the day, the rest of your life.

  Tim Winton

  Order, People, Water

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Possess the "Nobel Factor": Possess and constantly demonstrate optimism, faith, and hope. They create choices. I am reminded of an ancient Chinese proverb: "That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change; but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent."

  Warren G. Bennis

  Hair, Worry, Bird

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95 per cent, which is enormous. But again, I'm actually giving you grounds for optimism: There were enough to continue. The five per cent who made it through are what you need to survive a bottleneck, which we have been through before.

  Margaret Atwood

  America, Giving, Needs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Confidence, Mind, Important

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.

  Ben H. Winters

  Optimistic, Thinking, America

  Source: www.slate.com

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• What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.

  Eric Heisserer

  Writing, Needs, Bending

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spring, People, Political

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• Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're playing a festival, people come to see music in general - so don't be fearful. The people are there to enjoy and discover new music so approach the show with confidence and optimism.

  Vince Staples

  Artist, People, Festivals

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Believe, Hard Work, Successful

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Faith and optimism come from love.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.

  Dar Williams

  Optimistic, Feelings, Want

  Source: progressive.org

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• I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from.

  Deray McKesson

  Recovery, Thinking, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We're all going through so much hard, wonderful, amazing . . . it's blessings; it's lessons; it's hardship; it's life. I guess, I don't know what the definition of life is. I now know the meaning of my life, because of my daughters, but mine is one little tiny speck in the universe. It's nice to not be pretending everything is perfect all the time, because it isn't, but I do love happiness and joy and optimism.

  Drew Barrymore

  Daughter, Nice, Blessing

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I have optimism and am incredibly hopeful for the future. I often say to friends, it's always darkest before the dawn, and lets be frank there's a lot of darkness out there right now, at least at a macro level. But once you drill down through that I think there's so much light, or at least the chance for it to erupt and illuminate the dark.

  Lawrence English

  Dark, Thinking, Hopeful

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

  Philip K. Dick

  Inspirational, Life, Optimistic

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• I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Disappointment, Greatness

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• Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

  William Arthur Ward

  Happiness, Gratitude, Hate

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• I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

  Abigail Reynolds

  Coffee, Literature, Cream

  Abigail Reynolds (2010). “Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist”, p.27, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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