“The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.” BeliefClassOptimisticCheesePoisoningYuppiesBrie Author:Alfred Adler
“One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.” PeopleBelieveWellsTurnsBeliefWomenForgetTraumaYesterdayOptimisticOptimistBad Relationship Author:Amy Dickinson
“I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.” MayBeliefFlowerCreaturesDiscoveryCome UpOptimisticHaphazardHopscotch Author:Brad Leithauser
“Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.” PeopleHumansDoeTogetherIndividualBeliefGivenSinCreativeEnvironmentGroupsConditionsHuman NatureOvercomingErrorsOptimisticInevitableWorking TogetherMutualImperfectHuman ConditionRegulationMultitudesRestraintBe CreativeConstructiveMutual RespectTrusting People Author:Peter Senge
“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.” MenDesireBeliefDifficultYouthDespairSpringPreparedInjusticePrivilegeDisappointmentOptimisticAgonyOutrageHopefulness Book:The Galantrys Source: The Galantrys