O Quotes
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“Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!”
“Optimists are happier in life for a reason.”
Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel
“Optimists are the least prepared for the loss of hope.”
“Optimists are usually inexperienced.”
“Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.”
“Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible”
“Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.”
“Optimists may have fugitive doubts about the basic desirability of existence, but pessimists never doubt that existence is basically undesirable. If you interrupted them in the middle of an ecstatic moment, which pessimists do have, and asked if existence is basically undesirable, they would reply “Of course” before returning to their ecstasy.”
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
“Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.”
“Optimists recover from their momentary helplessness immediately. Very soon after failing, they pick themselves up, shrug, and start trying again.”
Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Optimists see the glass as half full.
Pessimists see the glass as half empty.
Experiential trainers see the whole glass and its context.”
“Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.”
“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.”
Source: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
“Optimization hinders evolution.”
“Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”
“Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results.”
“Optimization' means moving toward peak performance.”
Source: Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon
“Optimize and take flight!!! Stay educated in your field, excite those around you and be energizing!! That is the E3 system, its simple yet so rewarding!”
Source: Congratulations! You Just Lost Your J.O.B
“Optimize the body.”
“Optimize the brain through nutrition.”
“Optimize the digestion process with nutritional supplements.”
“OPTIMIZE YOUR MIND”
Source: U-Day
“Optimizing for figures without context leads to trouble.”
“Optimizing working capital management improves financial efficiency, enhances cash flow, and boosts overall profitability for companies.”
“Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.”
“Optimum is often the mean of its pros and cons.”
“Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.”
“Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.”
“Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action”
“Opting for timely and speedy technologies at the expense of cognitive intelligent human resource abilities is a tricky ethical dilemma in the Ideal-World which is proven to be the Ultimate-Reality.”
“Opting to do what is right is part of managing your time.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)”
Source: Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4
“Option A:
Spend your life trying to get others to accept you.
Option B:
Accept yourself, and spend your life with others who recognize what a beauty you are.”
“OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.”
“Optional is latin for 'Be There'.”
“Options abound in our world. You can choose where to stay and how to stay there. Where you are Today is as a result of the option you took yesterday and no doubt where you will be Tomorrow is embedded in your option Today. Choose right; choose wisely, Take THE BEST OPTION. The Best Option will deliver your inheritance to you. It will change your state and deliver to you, your brand new estate. You do not blame anyone for failing to do it right the first time. You accept the blame. The Best Option will cause you to get it right the first time and always.”
“Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.”
“Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.”
“Options are good. Keeps people choosing.”
“Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography and whole breast screening ultrasound, annual breast MRI, and biannual clinical breast exam.”
“Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.”
Source: Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
“Opulence is the law of the universe, an abundant supply for every need if nothing is put in the way of its coming.”
Source: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine
“Opulent, velvety, fruity, you are as fine wine.
I want to languidly inhale your aroma, sip you slowly, let my tongue linger.
Tasting you as I delight in your sweetness.”
“Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.”
Source: History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch
“Opus Dei non est opus Dei.”
“Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.”
“Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.”
Source: Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)
“Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.”
“Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!”
“Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?”
Source: A Fraction of the Whole