Optimist Quotes - Page 15

• I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Too Much

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• You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

  Barbara Boxer

  Source: progressive.org

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• As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a lot of our fellow citizens have.

  Margaret Hoover

  Glasses, Appreciate, Understanding

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all this social conditioning, but there is a point where you do have to make a choice, and that's the optimist in me: you have the freedom to make a choice about how you are going to be, and what you're going to do.

  Irvine Welsh

  Choices, Over You, Inheritance

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is a researcher's dream.

  Paul Saffo

  Dream, Lying, Wikipedia

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Heart, Dark, Stories

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

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• Whether we like it or not, we live in a post-ideological world. That's how a Donald Trump can get through. He has no ideology at all: in that sense, he's a bit like Mussolini. I think that ultimately Trump will lose the election and in the process destroy the Republican party - but then I'm an optimist, ha ha ha! So he might not lose. He might be in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world!

  Billy Bragg

  Party, Thinking, World

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The problem is that people are pulling farther apart, rather than make an effort to get back together. There have been remarkable moments that united this country. It makes everyone feel relieved. Then because of economic stress, political shifts, we get wrenched apart again. I think it's cyclical. I am an optimist by nature. There are moments, the period after 9/11, the way we responded. The election of Barack Obama. There are moments where the country felt good about being American. I'm waiting for that to happen again.

  John Lithgow

  Country, Stress, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of "patriotism" is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a "patriotic American" .

  Hasan Minhaj

  War, Optimistic, Mean

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• My father enabled me to really believe in myself. And yet I've heard very similar stories - from many, many people. It's the way he approached his life. The way he approached his life - he was the eternal optimist. He was the most optimistic person that I've ever known. Even in the face of this diagnosis with cancer, he was filled with optimism about what he could do and what he could accomplish.

  Edward Kennedy

  Father, Cancer, Believe

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly, because of the relatively poor performance of many corporations in the early part of millennial , there seems to be less arrogance in executive suites, and that usually translates to a willingness to consider alternatives.

  James O'Toole

  Arrogance, Poor, Translate

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

  Brian Eno

  Smart, Thinking, Self

  "Pushing Back the Limits of Speech and Music". Interview with Ben Sisario, www.nytimes.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

  Thomas Friedman

  Done, Positive Change, Changes In History

  "Thomas Friedman: Hope for a hot, flat and crowded world". Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.

  Simon Sinek

  Focus, Looks, Obstacles

  Twitter post from May 06, 2010

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• I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought Provoking

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• I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

  Roger Moore

  Get Better, Might

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• For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

  Scott Adams

  Attitude, Nuts, Optimism

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.118, Penguin

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• By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below). If you think all can be made well in this world, then you will go to any extreme to make it happen. There is the story of the 20th century. As Lenin said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".

  Robert Barron

  Believe, Thinking, Eggs

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• Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

  Milan Kundera

  Thinking, Numbers, Optimism

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• I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

  Betty White

  Trying, Negative, Bigs

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

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• Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

  Jacki Weaver

  Thinking, Equal Pay, Years

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

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• I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

  Peter Ustinov

  Order, World, Fool

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

  Cat Stevens

  Justice, People, Common Sense

  "A cat in a wild world" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2004.

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• The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Memorable, Men, Two

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• I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

  Octavia Spencer

  Reality, World, Realist

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