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• And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of the young people I've met they think already, before they start playing, they think already about the product: how can we sell it....maybe my view is really very old fashioned nowadays, but I think art at any times needs time for development and this fast food bullshit is not working... younger guys: take your time, music is really a thing of long terms, actually it's a lifelong thing to learn and to develop your own stuff.

  Peter Brotzmann

  Music, Art, Thinking

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• Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

  Patti Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  Ofra Haza

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

  Martin Seligman

  Thinking, Reality, Skills

  "Martin Seligman : Pursuing Happiness With a Positive Outlook, not a Pill". Interview with Steve Proffitt, articles.latimes.com. January 24, 1999.

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• If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

  John Lewis

  Giving Up, Believe, Long

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• We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.

  T. H. White

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

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• Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

  Martin Seligman

  People, Being Positive, Pessimistic

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• People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  People, Events, Intense Emotions

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.161, Penguin

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• And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Crush, Negativity, World

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• Analysts have always been overly optimistic.

  David Dreman

  Analysts

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• I am optimistic about the future of music.

  George Crumb

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• The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

  Joanna Macy

  Healing, Our World, Capacity To Love

  "Joanna Macy: A Wild Love for the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 11, 2016.

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• [Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Rest In Peace, Motivation, Inspiration

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• There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

  Barbara Demick

  Survival, Instinct, Natural

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.60, Granta

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• Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.

  Guy Delisle

  Memories, Block, Naive

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• The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic.

  Hal David

  Art, Talent, Art Is

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

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• I’m not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all that. But in the long-term I’m optimistic that we’ll see the pendulum swing back in the other direction towards more privacy.

  Rod Humble

  Swings, Long, People

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• You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.

  Nathan Crowley

  Risk, Luck, Pessimistic

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• The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Color, Yellow, Orange

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• Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Clean Underwear, Ifs, Underwear

  "Arborophilia". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2005.

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• Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

  Susan Hill

  Children, Believe, Hopeful

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• I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

  Patrick Marber

  Men, Thinking, Married

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Remember, Those who have the gift of faith are growth-oriented, goal-oriented, optimistic, and confident. – C. Peter Wagner.

  Phil Pringle

  Goal, Growth, Remember

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• Women, I learned, adapted.
  At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.

  Alice Steinbach

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Giving Up, Kids, Rocks

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