Optimistic Quotes - Page 33

• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Mean, Pioneers, Offensive

  4 Copy quote

• Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, Justice, Want

  "The Lower Depths". Play by Maxim Gorky, 1902.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Strong, America

  "Exclusive Interview With Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to President Obama". Interview with Earl Ofari Hutchinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Long, People

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.43, Prabhat Prakashan

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Essence, Style, Littles

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.299, Macmillan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People

  10 Copy quote

• Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mean, Odds, Differences

  16 Copy quote

• Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Optimism, Lucky

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.290, Macmillan

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Military, Average, Play

  "Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (Part 1): Daniel Kahneman". www.bloomberg.com. October 25, 2011.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Turbulence is a condition that we all experience during a flight when the plane is bouncing around by competing air currents. By analogy, the economy may bounce around a lot because of competing currents of public moods and investments. One week everyone might be optimistic and then suddenly something happens to turn everyone into pessimists. Investment dries up and investors become risk averse. A sudden piece of good news then turns around the public mood.

  Philip Kotler

  Air, Risk, Pieces

  Source: bobmorris.biz

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm very optimistic that there are sincere believers out there that are okay with tradition but don't want to endorse traditionalism for the sake of traditionalism but want to embrace tradition because it's God-honoring. I think that's a beautiful thing.

  LeCrae

  Beautiful, Thinking, Want

  4 Copy quote

• I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.

  Dar Williams

  Optimism, Feelings, Want

  Source: progressive.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

  Pedro Reyes

  Art, Agency, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think anybody can prepare on a physical level. It isn't possible to prepare for what is about to happen. The Pentagon gives us one to three years left of normal life on this planet. Now you have Al Gores movie "An Inconvenient Truth", whom I find very optimistic, as he gives us ten years. But I don't know a single scientist on the planet who gives us ten years or anybody else who gives us that long. What the Pentagon talks about is the rapid changes in climate, making it impossible to live in certain areas. Exactly where those areas are, they don't know.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Thinking, Years, Giving

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.

  Bill McKibben

  Morning, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not optimistic about reform in many, if any, policy areas at all. I think we'll make further progress by inventing new things that aren't much regulated yet and outracing bad policy. I look at so many policy areas - regulation, regulatory reform, health care reform - it's all failing, we're not making improvements, we're going backwards.

  Tyler Cowen

  Thinking, Progress, Care

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm quite optimistic when it comes to the capacity of our people to have an honest discussion about what's really going on. What do you think John McCain's candidacy was about? And the early days of Bill Bradley's candidacy? People are hungry for a genuine, no-spin set of ideas and truths. They want their leaders to tell it like it is. There is a great demand for this. Politicians continually underestimate the ability of the American public to understand what's happening to them and what the real choices are.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mitt Romney is talking about the fact that Republicans and Democrats alike have to find common ground to address very real challenges we face as a country. It's a message that's uplifting, it's optimistic. It's about how America can be great again. I think that's the right closing message and I think frankly it's what we need to do as a country after this election regardless of what happens.

  Rob Portman

  Uplifting, Country, Real

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

  David Frum

  Country, Feel Good, Middle Class

  "How populism is pulling America's parties apart". Interview with Colin Campbell and Jason Markusoff, www.macleans.ca. September 8, 2016.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• As all creative people, we have our optimistic side and a darker side. Yes, I would say that I am more optimistic than not. I have written some very lush pieces when I was at low ebb, and some highly energized pieces when carrying a great sadness. It seems that I am getting more optimistic as I get older - life is a lot of fun!

  Barbara Harbach

  Fun, Sadness, People

  Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm really excited that the fashion industry is evolving, doing a much better job at representation, with women of color, women of different shapes, sizes, and creeds. It's been a long time coming... There were issues of tokenism, issues of misrepresentation. I'm optimistic that I see the change, the conversation that these archetypes gotta go. We can be very political and have long weaves down to our asses.

  Solange Knowles

  Fashion, Long, Political

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Where solar energy is concerned - and wind energy and battery storage and electric vehicles and efficiency technologies - that is what we are now seeing. So, yes, I'm very optimistic, but anyone who works on the climate crisis has an internal struggle between hope and despair. I won't deny that, but hope has always prevailed in my outlook.

  Al Gore

  Struggle, Technology, Despair

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve.

  Osama Alomar

  Fighting, Pessimistic, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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, Mean, Patriotic

  Source: www.mtv.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well. It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

  Freeman Dyson

  Progress

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source