Being Optimistic Quotes - Page 4

• 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 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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• 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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• My approach is that fashion must always be optimistic, and that a woman will always be enticed by beautiful clothes.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Beautiful, Fashion, Optimistic

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• Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

  Richard Flanagan

  Art, Reading, Writing

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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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• Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.

  Robin Roberts

  Optimistic, Thinking, Order

  Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers (2014). “Everybody's Got Something”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

  Bill Bryson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Balance

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

  Beth Riesgraf

  Optimistic, Ideas, Knowing

  "Beth Riesgraf Talks About 'Leverage,' Filming in Portland, and Her 'Adrenaline Junkie' Character". Interview with Kristi Turnquist, www.oregonlive.com. August 18, 2012.

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• Fun, that's the word I keep on using. That's the word I worry about when other writer's scripts get too dark. Optimistic. Fun. And to be optimistic and have fun there's got to be a darkness there. I think that's a very British attitude.

  Russell T Davies

  Fun, Attitude, Optimistic

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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, Optimistic, Opportunity

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• Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.

  Jonathon Keats

  Optimistic, Engineering, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have a record for Nawaz Sharif but not the others. And judging by the record, it's pretty hard to be optimistic. His [Sharif's] previous governments were very corrupt and regressive in the policies pursued.

  Noam Chomsky

  Optimistic, Government, Judging

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Optimistic, Thinking, Dangerous

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.

  Robert H. Frank

  Optimistic, Simple, Government

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You have to be optimistic about golf. I mean it's physically demanding, particularly if you're on one leg. But it's psychologically demanding regardless of your physical infirmities. I mean, it's a tough sport. You've got to be disciplined and optimistic. And if you have a bad hole, you've got to be optimistic that you'll do well on the next hole.

  George W. Bush

  Sports, Optimistic, Mean

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Optimistic, Long

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

  Al Gore

  Optimistic, Challenges, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

  George Saunders

  Optimistic, Here I Am, Trying

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.

  Andrew Aydin

  Struggle, Optimistic, Years

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• 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

  Optimistic, Optimism, Feelings

  Source: progressive.org

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• We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Optimistic, Thinking, America

  Interview with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

  Jeff Cooper

  Optimistic, Fool, Exit

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• I think you need optimism. I believe that's incredibly important that you be optimistic that you can do things different and still do them just as well. That's very important to success - just to have a positive outlook. I know it's not easy to do that.

  Jim Abbott

  Believe, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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