Optimist Quotes - Page 17

• There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, People, Lasts

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• All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.

  Fred Brooks

  Believe, Frustration, Goal

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• A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

  Eyedea

  Pessimist

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• The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Tunnels, Light, Next

  Sydney J. Harris (1982). “Pieces of Eight”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm a recovering optimist.

  Larry Gelbart

  Recovering

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• O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Optimism, Troops, Trends

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• The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Business, Optimism, Risk

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• I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.

  Aziz Ansari

  "Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: "elusive and sadly ephemeral"". Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I've always been an optimist.

  George Clooney

  "TOMORROWLAND: George Clooney, Damon Lindelof, and Brad Bird on the Boldness of Originality and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2015.

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• Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

  Robin Sharma

  Pessimist, No Hope, Disappointed

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2017

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• I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart.

  John Dos Passos

  Optimistic, Heart, Men

  Interview on February 03, 1964. "Talks With Authors". Book edited by Charles F. Madden, 1968.

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• Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Too Much, Sin

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• If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

  Norman Foster

  Would Be, Impossible, Architect

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• I don't know if the optimists
  or the pessimists are right.
  But, the optimists are going to get something done.

  Craig Venter

  Done, Pessimist, Knows

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• I would say Im an optimist by nature.

  Steve Tisch

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• Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

  Ouida

  Men, Optimism, Looks

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• I am by nature a worried optimist.

  Madeleine Albright

  Optimism, Worried

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• Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

  Barbara Holland

  Spring, Years, Waiting

  Barbara Holland (1997). “Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: The Case for Cows, Orchards, Bake Sales, & Fairs”, Harcourt

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• We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.

  Richard Rohr

  Growing Up, Taken, Thinking

  Source: day1.org

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• I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Cynical, Too Much, Way

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: 'He's The Best!' - Everybody". Interview with David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Optimism, Heaven, Despair

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• I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.

  Demi Moore

  Focus, Nervous, Make Me Happy

  "Moore wants a baby with Kutcher". www.express.co.uk. September 3, 2009.

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• I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am.

  Ron Santo

  Believe, Years, Careers

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• Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Two, Feelings, Forgiving

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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, Optimism

  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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