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• Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic. What fans are interested in is 'throwawayability': which teams toss away hard-earned leads? Now we know that 'throwawayability' exists because we proved last season that 'bouncebackability' exists (although, hilariously, Palace don't have it) and 'throw-awayability' is the flip side of it.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day.

  Cotton Fitzsimmons

  Positive, Attitude, Good Day

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• Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can lead to poor decisions and invites people to take advantage of you. Instead, be a rational optimist who takes the good with the bad, in hopes of the good ultimately outweighing the bad, and with the understanding that being pessimistic about everything accomplishes nothing. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best - the former makes you sensible, and the latter makes you an optimist.

  Dale Carnegie

  Poor Decisions, Accomplish Nothing, People

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• I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

  Steve Earle

  Children, Age, Purpose

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• Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.

  Thom Yorke

  Islands, Disappear Completely, Important

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• But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.

  John Hench

  Artist, Optimism, Way

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• Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.

  Wes Fesler

  Optimism, Path, Pessimism

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• I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.

  Maggie Tabberer

  Women, Persons, Knows

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• What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Self Esteem, Valuable, Values

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• The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Change, Attitude, Doe

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• I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Focusing on the tiniest details, finding magic in even the smallest inspirations, embracing the briefest moments-that's where passion is.

  Linda Kaplan Thaler

  Song, Inspiration, Passion

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• We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Optimism, Imperfection, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1595, Manonmani Publishers

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• I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Transformation, Rapids

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• I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?'

  David Miliband

  Son, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Vincent Moss, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2010.

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• It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

  Charles Osgood

  Country, Reality, Thinking

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• Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Two, Law, Diversity

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.530, Best Books on

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• I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

  Greg LeMond

  Cycling, Right Now

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• I always remain optimistic.

  Chuck D

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Country, Thinking, Black

  Twitter post from May 26, 2009

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• I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I'm an outspoken atheist now. People say, 'Oh, it's a negative thing to be an atheist.' I don't agree. I think it's more optimistic to think that there is no God, no afterlife.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Atheist, Thinking, Afterlife

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• The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.

  Wendy Ewald

  Artist, Years, Ideas

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• There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

  David Rakoff

  Thinking, Optimism, Details

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• In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.

  Henry Sy

  Integrity, Opportunity, Long

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• Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Barack Obama getting elected.

  Kid Cudi

  People, Want, Something New

  "Kid Cudi: 'I've always been ahead of the curve'" by Archna Sawjani, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I do remain optimistic that one day the world will realise that carbon dioxide is more of a friend than an enemy to the earth's flora and fauna, and I do seriously believe that, given the extraordinary complexity of the natural forces controlling our climate, which have done so for millions of years, the only sensible policy response to the natural process of climate change is prudent and cost-effective adaptation.

  Nick Minchin

  Believe, Years, Enemy

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