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• In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Ideas, Childhood

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

  Martin Seligman

  Giving Up, Believe, Failure

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.162, Vintage

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• Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

  Linus Pauling

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Powerful, Men

  "L K Advani makes Narendra Modi break down during speech". www.financialexpress.com. May 20, 2014.

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• As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.

  Robert D. Maurer

  Loss, Clear Goals, Essence

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• Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

  Dana Reeve

  Thinking, Luck, Really Pretty

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• Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

  Bernard Williams

  Optimism, Emptiness, Someday

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• Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

  Julia Ward Howe

  Thinking, Views, Best Things

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• No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

  Robert Mueller

  Optimism, Able, Pessimism

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• The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

  Sean O Faolain

  Gay, Kind, Pessimist

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• So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Trying, Looks, Sides

  P. G. Wodehouse (1966). “Uncle Dynamite”, Penguin Group USA

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• What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?

  Jennifer James

  Children, Views, Small Acts

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Thinking, Literature, Dangerous

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  If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful.

  Dean Martin

  Beautiful, Ifs

  Song: Ain't That A Kick In The Head

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• It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

  Mark Twain

  Lovely, Disposition, Brushes

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.62, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

  Mark Twain

  Play, Backyards, Hell

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Noble, Phrases

  Storm Jameson (1966). “The Early Life of Stephen Hind”

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• It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

  Margery Allingham

  Disappointment, Spring, Agony

  Margery Allingham (1943). “The Galantrys”

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• I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

  Kevin Cramer

  Ideas, Conservative, Joyful

  "New House members of 113th Congress: A-B-C". POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

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• Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Views, Civilization

  Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.

  Graeme Base

  Thinking, Stories, Ends

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• Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Attitude, Keys

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• I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, People, Stupidity

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.

  Tasha Tudor

  Snakes, Looks, Faces

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