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• Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Girl, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I'm incredibly happy with the results. 'Everything To Me' is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can't wait for people to hear it!

  Shane Filan

  Summer, Song, People

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• Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be?

  Zig Ziglar

  Yesterday, Would Be, Today

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• Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Children, Light, Broken

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• When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, Space, Views

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• My mom is positive and optimistic.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Mom, My Mom

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• I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

  George MacDonald

  World, This World, Something Better

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• Be optimistic about everything in life.

  Michael Jordan

  Being Optimistic

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• I'm very optimistic about my home state of Arizona...

  John McCain

  Home, Arizona, States

  "South Carolina Primary: Bush Wins Decisively; McCain Promises Fight in Michigan, Arizona". CNN's coverage of the South Carolina Republican primary with Bernard Shaw, Judy Woodruff, Jeff Greenfield., www.cnn.com. February 19, 2000.

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• If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Acting, Pits, Pessimistic

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

  Glenn Reynolds

  People, Expectations, Cheerful

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• When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

  Zig Ziglar

  Effort, Creative, Mind

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• I think Albertans are progressive and forward-looking and are very optimistic, and I think they've always embraced change. Now with the economy being the way it is, I think we need to acknowledge people are a bit nervous too.

  Rachel Notley

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.

  Etgar Keret

  Children, Father, Thinking

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present and a future - and what was in the past no longer exists.

  Claudia Rankine

  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

  James Norton

  Thinking, Guy, Moments

  "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Spring, Thinking, Editors

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Leader, Doubt

  "Daniel Kahneman’s Gripe with Behavioral Economics". Interview with Jesse Singal, www.thedailybeast.com. April 26, 2013.

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• In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

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• Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

  Marilyn Manson

  Artist, Nihilist, I Can

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• A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

  Moby

  Song, Thinking, Mp3

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, People, Resilient

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• I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.

  Emily Mortimer

  Thinking, Levels, Ends

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• I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.

  Emily Mortimer

  Up Early, Wake Up

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• I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

  Elon Musk

  United States, Century, States

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

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