Optimist Quotes - Page 9

• I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Depressing, Optimistic, Work Out

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• I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.

  Hoda Kotb

  Cancer, Thinking, Broken

  "5 Minutes with Hoda Kotb". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I may be an optimist.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  May

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• What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Lucky, World

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• I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Believe, Thinking, Expression

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• I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because of popular taste or any other reasons. When something doesn't do better than it deserves to in your mind, it's pretty transparent - you usually know why. Is that a comfort? Yes, because it's logical. Does it make you happy? No, because if you think a movie is beautiful or interesting, you want to share it. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.

  Willem Dafoe

  Beautiful, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Optimists are usually inexperienced.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

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• Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

  Mark Twain

  Pessimistic, Pessimist

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.142, Chartwell

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• A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

  Victor Cherbuliez

  Optimism, Imagine, Pessimist

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• An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

  Heinz Ruhmann

  Men, Optimism, Half

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• An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Glasses, Optimism, Needs

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

  Mark Twain

  Optimism

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

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• ...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Breakfast

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

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• When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Thinking, Doors, Hearing

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.172, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

  Robert Breault

  Optimism, Littles, These Days

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• I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

  Clay Aiken

  Thinking, Afterlife, Littles

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• Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

  Ted Koppel

  Believe, Odds, Overcoming

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• To stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feel hopeful about the future of film - especially looking at all the beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’ I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up.

  Jessica Chastain

  Beautiful, Kings, People

  "Watch Jessica Chastain’s Impassioned Speech For Diversity In Hollywood" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Communists are the last optimists.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Lasts, Communist

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.37, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• ...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.' If you just can't make that work for you, refocus your attention...Turn your attention in a totally different direction for the time being. Replace the distressing thoughts with other ideas. Distract yourself.

  Price Pritchett

  Gratitude, Ideas, Style

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• I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Believe, Thinking, Humanity

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• By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

  Howard Gardner

  Trying, Ifs

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Change, Believe, Order

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 05, 1991.

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• Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

  Paul Tough

  Trying, Events, Looks

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.

  Vera Nazarian

  Believe, Reality, Track

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