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• The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Optimistic, Night, Negativity

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• I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

  Fay Vincent

  Optimistic, Hopeful, I Can

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• I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

  Patrick Marber

  Optimistic, Men, Thinking

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

  Eugene Odum

  Optimistic, Challenges, Together

  Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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• I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ambition, Optimistic, Capacity

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• People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Optimistic, People, Events

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.161, Penguin

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• We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Optimistic, Effort, Pessimist

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• Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

  Bob Dole

  Optimistic, Get Better

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

  Nick Cannon

  Optimistic, People, Trying

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• I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

  Graeme Souness

  Jobs, Optimistic, Thinking

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• My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

  Bob Seger

  Optimistic, Play, People

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• I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

  Nat Hentoff

  Optimistic

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Heart, Optimistic, Independent

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• 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

  Optimistic, Air, Risk

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

  John Perry Barlow

  Optimistic, May, Dread

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• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  Ofra Haza

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.

  Philippa Perry

  Flower, Optimistic, Talking

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• I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

  Gordon Clark

  Business, Optimistic, Long

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• 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, Optimistic

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

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• The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

  David Attenborough

  Optimistic, Birth Rate, Giving

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• Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.

  Dana Reeve

  Inspiration, Grateful, Optimistic

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 23, 2004.

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• Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Optimistic, Clean Underwear, Ifs

  "Arborophilia". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2005.

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• I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

  Jon Anderson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Optimism

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• It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

  John Green

  Hipster, Optimistic, Numbers

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Optimistic, Thinking, Literature

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