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• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Dream, Positive Thinking

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• 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

  Optimistic, People, Lucky

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

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• In every difficult situation there is a door to opportunity for which optimism is the only key.

  Wes Fesler

  Opportunity, Keys, Doors

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• Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

  Helen Keller

  Cheer, Giving Up, Failure

  Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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• Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

  Laozi

  Success, Weed, Dream

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• Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

  Deepak Chopra

  Expression, Intention, Higher

  Twitter post from Jul 5, 2015

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• To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Fun, Intuition

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• When it comes to our health, there are essentially four things under our control: the decision not to smoke, a commitment to exercise, the quality of our diet, and our level of optimism. And optimism is at least as beneficial as the others.

  Martin Seligman

  Commitment, Exercise, Decision

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• False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

  Abraham Maslow

  Mean, Hopelessness, Disillusionment

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• I think preppy stands for optimism, confidence, energy and authenticity.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Thinking, Energy, Preppy

  Twitter post from Jan 12, 2012

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• Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Thinking, Knowing

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• Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

  Simon Sinek

  Complaining, Complaints, Begets

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2010

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• Optimism, positivity and faith create the foundation from which success can be built.

  Sharon Lechter

  Positivity, Foundation, Built

  Sharon Lechter (2014). “Think and Grow Rich for Women: Using Your Power to Create Success and Significance”, p.27, Penguin

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• Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

  Simon Sinek

  Focus, Ability

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2011

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• Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

  E. M. Delafield

  Doe, Engagement, Leading On

  E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.16, e-artnow

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• Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Wise, Moving, Men

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• I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.

  Taylor Swift

  Self, Doubt, Way

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• Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to include the belief that new things can be discovered, that newer can be better, and that greater depth of understanding is achievable. Research, especially academic research, is a form of optimism about the human condition.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Expression, Understanding, Progress

  Henry Rosovsky (1990). “The University: An Owner's Manual”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.

  William Kentridge

  Art, Political, Nihilism

  Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, William Kentridge (1998). “William Kentridge”, Societe Des Expositions Des Beaux

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• Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.

  James K. A. Smith

  Christian, Appreciate, Enlightenment

  James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.28, Baker Academic

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• Today we confront the future with optimism from a founded hope for the Iraqi people - in freedom

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Iraq, People, Today

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• Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Positive, Strong, Passion

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• I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

  John Hench

  Artist, Fundamentals, Levels

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• Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the backs of our optimism and our insecurity. It is as much psychology as commerce. But I've also learned that every day we make split second decisions about people based on their attire and those decisions can have powerful implications - see the story of Trayvon Martin and his hoodie. It's important for us to understand how fashion works and how we connect to it.

  Robin Givhan

  Fashion, Powerful, Inspiration

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• Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from God that cannot be reduced to optimism, which is only human. God does not mislead hope; God cannot deny himself. God is all promise.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Promise, Doe

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.100, A&C Black

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