Optimistic Quotes - Page 26

• The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.

  Robert H. Frank

  Simple, Government, Years

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You have to be optimistic about golf. I mean it's physically demanding, particularly if you're on one leg. But it's psychologically demanding regardless of your physical infirmities. I mean, it's a tough sport. You've got to be disciplined and optimistic. And if you have a bad hole, you've got to be optimistic that you'll do well on the next hole.

  George W. Bush

  Sports, Mean, Golf

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• It is a very interesting world. I'm excited. It is much more optimistic than people think, and there is going to be huge job creation from all these things, and there are going to be huge life improvements.

  Ken Moelis

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• I will tell you my position now, as somebody who is ardently against [Donald Trump], as the sort of standard-bearer of the Republican Party and as sort of an impostor in the conservative movement, is, frankly, cautiously optimistic.

  Margaret Hoover

  Party, Movement, Conservative

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Opportunity, People, Challenges

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting stuff together. I think there are more stories about women of color [and] older women. But it is slim pickings.

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, Color, Together

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

  Arundhati Roy

  Cities, India, Feels

  Source: progressive.org

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• Do you want to live a better life? Do you really want to have a normal, optimistic outlook on life every day? Don't watch CNN. Don't read the New York Times.

  Rush Limbaugh

  New York, Outlook On Life, Cnn

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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

  Thinking, America, Long

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

  Hector Tobar

  Parent, Three, Way

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Long, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I think that it's very important to resist that anxiety, to think of ways of resisting the constant inflow of negative feelings, not to become depoliticized as a result but to actually work actively to bring into being an optimistic future.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, America, Anxiety

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

  Patrick Stewart

  Humanity, Has Beens

  Source: time.com

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• I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

  Mike Judge

  Real, Thinking, Pessimistic

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• People feel optimistic. Look at the jobs report.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Jobs, People, Looks

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

  Al Gore

  Self, Quality, Speech

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

  Al Gore

  Challenges, Age, Being Optimistic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.

  Samantha Hunt

  Art, Optimism, Helping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of my optimistic prophecies is based on the assumption that machines could have the best algorithms in the universe, but it will never have purpose. And the problem for us to explain purpose to a machine is because we don't know what our purpose is. We have the purpose, but we still ... When we look at this global picture, a universal picture, to understand what is our purpose being here on this planet? We don't know.

  Garry Kasparov

  Purpose, Assumption, Problem

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If we keep an optimistic view about the future, we definitely have to look for our place. Not to be redundant. And that means we have to emphasize what makes us unique.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mean, Unique, Redundant

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If I am able to sing again it will be through some miracle operation. There's a lot of work being done to help singers regain their voices, but in my case I actually lost vocal tissue so it's very hard for my chords to rub together and I need to replace that tissue. I remain optimistic but not tremendously so.

  Julie Andrews

  Miracle, Together, Done

  "First Lady of the Musical Theater". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 10, 2004.

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• I'm not political in the sense of activity. My activity, I guess, are the films. I can't really say if I'm worried or a bit optimistic. I think in a funny way I'm a little bit optimistic because even though nothing has really changed, and even though the governments keep changing and there's always chaos in the Arab world because it's not easy to cope with politically, for me it's really interesting.

  Eran Riklis

  Thinking, Interesting, Political

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You take your audience through such a story where they have to invest their energy and emotion, and to slap them in the face with, "Well, this is how life is. Bye," wouldn't have been as great as the ending that we have, which is optimistic and hopeful. It's not happy 100%, but it does make you feel like, "This kid may just be okay."

  John Boyega

  Kids, Hopeful, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the characteristics of really effective leaders when people are frightened and depressed are the same qualities that leaders need when people are optimistic. The difference is when people are frightened the need for these few qualities becomes much stronger because frightened people are desperate to have someone they can trust and believe in and who seems to be able to create a better future.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think revolution is always a little bit possible. I think it won't look or sound anything like what we would expect. But I think revolution is very difficult, and I'm not optimistic for any kind of dramatic change.

  Aaron McGruder

  Thinking, Revolution, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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