Pollyanna Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't exactly how it's done traditionally in the academy...wherever that academy is...but, you know, the academy is broken as it relates to many creative writing programs.

  Tod Goldberg

  Teaching, Writing, Broken

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• I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

  Bill Ayers

  Mother, Suffering, Hopeless

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• I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.

  Robin Roberts

  Grateful, Believe, Moving

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• Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.

  Weegee

  Nice, Average, Hands

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• Don't be a Pollyanna!

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Courage

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• My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

  Tracy Pollan

  Mean, Focus, Way

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• I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

  Harlan Coben

  Real, Thinking, Friendly

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• I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

  Dan Savage

  Type

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• Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

  Mark Skousen

  Keys, Taught Us, People

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• I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kind, Persons

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