Optimism Quotes - Page 17

• Attitudes of optimism, of "let them be", and of joy in watching and helping another life develop and blossom will help parents relish their parenting role and will provide the resilience necessary to navigate turbulent times.

  Timothy Carey

  Attitude, Joy, Parent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Demonstrating faith and optimism in the child or adolescent's ability to work things out in their own time and in their own way can be very difficult but it is possible to do this while also offering assistance.

  Timothy Carey

  Children, Offering, Way

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

  John Rzeznik

  Thinking, Albums, Certain

  "John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

  Guillermo del Toro

  America, Gold, Blooming

  Source: collider.com

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• Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.

  George Pattison

  Strong, Growing Up, War

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Mean, Shapes, Cynicism

  "How to Be a Better Person in 2015, According to the Creators of Portlandia". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. January 8, 2015.

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• Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says "don't worry - everything will be just fine" and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  Ramez Naam

  Two, Worry, Action

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

  Paula Nelson

  Money, Acceptance, America

  Paula Nelson (1977). “The Joy of Money: The Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

  Alex Tan

  Inspirational, Life, Get Well

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• An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

  Don Marquis

  Guy, Experience, Definitions

  Archy and mehitabel "certain maxims of archy" (1927)

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• An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

  Don Marquis

  Optimist, Persons

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• Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side.

  Mike Dooley

  Patience, Worry, Sides

  FaceBook post by Mike Dooley from Jul 26, 2012

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• I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.

  Vandana Shiva

  Believe, People, Lessons

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.

  Mark Hoppus

  Beach, Sunset, Thinking

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's new album 'California'". Coup De Main interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I think optimism is a moral imperative.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Moral, Imperatives

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Even though it was January, in Los Angeles it was beautiful and sunny and the blue skies were out and it was hot everyday, so I think it was just a product of our environment. And California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else. But there's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

  Mark Hoppus

  Beautiful, Dream, Beach

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Even as considering African-Americans, immigrants and other groups who may be marginalized in different ways, American Muslims are still one of the most marginalized groups. Overt prejudice is probably more acceptable toward American Muslims than any other single group in the U.S. There is still a lot of policies in place that are incredibly effective that don't show any signs of eroding. So, I don't want to overstate the optimism but I think things are headed gradually in the right direction. Just because of the distance between us and 9/11.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Distance, Thinking, Different

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

  Abraham Maslow

  Mean, Hopelessness, Disillusionment

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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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• 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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