Optimism Quotes - Page 22

• Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

  Oliver Pell

  Reality, Psychological Disorders, Psychological

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• Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Views, World, Facts

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

  John F. Kerry

  Art, Imagination, Vision

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• The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

  John F. Kerry

  Rising, Politics, Sun

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• Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

  Mark Twain

  Optimist

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, White, Design

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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• My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

  Chris Hadfield

  Life, Thinking, Feelings

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• Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Courage, Honesty, Attitude

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• The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.

  Lucy Ellmann

  Expression, Agony, Shopping

  Lucy Ellmann (2013). “Dot in the Universe”, p.164, A&C Black

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• When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.

  Jane McGonigal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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• My optimism for life carried through my work.

  John Dyer

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• Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

  Gary Johnson

  Winning, Election, Should

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• Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.

  Seth

  Believe, Visions Of The Future, People

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• Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

  Robin Roberts

  Stronger, Use, Muscles

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

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• For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

  Scott Adams

  Attitude, Nuts, Records

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.118, Penguin

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• Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for. Romanticism began as a tremendous surge of optimism about the stature of man. Its aim - like that of science - was to raise man above the muddled feelings and impulses of his everyday humanity, and to make him a god-like observer of human existence.

  Colin Wilson

  Taken, Optimistic, Men

  "Introduction to the New Existentialism". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 96, 1966.

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• The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century

  Caroline Alexander

  Believe, Passion, Discovery

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• Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

  Milan Kundera

  Thinking, Numbers, Perspective

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• To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Motivation, Mean, Discovery

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

  Barbara Steele

  Beautiful, Dark, Italian

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• Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Mean, Errors, Ideas

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• Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.

  Amanda Ripley

  Differences, Hands, Making A Difference

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional, find hope, optimism and perhaps a path out of your situation in the stories of others.

  Meera Lester

  Stories, Want, Path

  Meera Lester (2009). “365 Ways to Live Happy: Simple Ways to Find Joy Every Day”, p.94, Adams Media

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• The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

  Timothy Keller

  Artist, Unique, Combination

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• Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn't surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers.

  John Vanderslice

  Suicide, Strong, Coffee

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