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“You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time?”

Trying Mountain Optimism Bottom

Author:Robert Riskin

“I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.”

Optimism Constant Joyous

Author:Michael Stipe

“There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.”

Seeing Optimism Down The Road Scenery

Author:Conor Oberst

“Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.”

Men Joy Boys Objects Pure Logic Optimism Towns Every Man Maids Pure Joy Choppers

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.”

Children Grows Century Optimism Harder Posterity Nineteenth Century Forlorn

Author:Mason Cooley

“Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.”

Matter Hope Fear Enjoy Company Becoming Optimism Pessimism Optimist Pessimist Dupes

Author:Mason Cooley

“Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.”

Dream Optimism Enterprise American Dream Free Enterprise Mobility Promiscuity

Author:Mason Cooley

“The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.”

“This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.”

Men Mean Littles Long War Water Optimism Upset Threatened

Author:H. G. Wells

“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way.”

Thinking Way Problem Reality Term Attitude Optimism Calm Lips Pessimism Pessimistic Serene Bodhisattva

Author:Nhat Hanh

“What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled store of gold, not its giant factories, not its surpassing railroads, not its unprecedented volume of cheap power. Is not its most priceless asset the character of its people, their indomitable self-confidence, their transcendent vision, their sleepless initiative and, perhaps above all, their inherent, irrepressible optimism?”

“Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.”

Powerful Leader Optimism Tanks Contagious Batteries Being A Leader Artillery

Author:Rick Hillier

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

“Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.”

Children Long Real Self Deals Childhood Self Esteem Optimism Foundation Esteem Persistence Lasting Mastery Maintaining Setback Long Road

Author:Lilian Katz

“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.”

May Ends Law Science Religion Optimism Ultimate Laws Of Nature Cautious Be Cautious

Book:The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

Source: The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

“She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?”

Helping Culture Girl Serious Sweet Gay Despair Crosses Optimism Critics Pops Consumers Borders Valleys Academic Good And Bad Pop Culture

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.”

Form Despair Optimism Pessimism

Book:The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.”

Ifs Grows Flower Optimism Prepared Soil

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.”

Happiness Brother Optimism Contentment Twins Twin Brother Twin Sister

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.”

Writing Book Soul Happiness Reading Secret Attitude Teacher Optimism Lays

Book:William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical

Source: William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical

“Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.”

Men Break Circumstances Optimism Bones

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.”

Thinking World Children Persons Difficult Worst Losing Tests Optimism Shakes Nightmare Unimaginable Worst Nightmares Losing A Child

Author:Natalie Portman

“I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.”

Optimism Coats Pessimist

Author:George Meyer

“I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there's also that fear, 'Oh, I don't want to be like my father,' or, 'I hope my kid doesn't turn out like me.' You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.”

Thinking Knows Want Feelings Kids Turns Father Keys Dad Optimism Like Me Good Dad

Author:Ben Affleck

“What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.”

Optimism Impressed Cuba

Author:Assata Shakur

“Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.”

Happiness Fun Events Optimism Investing March Pessimism Optimist Pessimist

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Some people grew up in the '70s, powerful, beautiful memories of the '70s which to me is one of the worst decades. It has something to do with that. Has something to with the birth of rock 'n' roll, and something to do with those American cars. an incredible design. There was so much optimism at that time and it must leak into the process.”

People Beautiful Process Memories Powerful Worst Rocks Car Design Grew Birth Grew Up Optimism Incredibles Decades Rock N Roll Leaks Beautiful Memories American Cars

Author:David Lynch

“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”

“Everything is a meaningless struggle against nothing and when people say that the world has become a better place that is a false development-optimism. Nothing exists which ever becomes better. Everything stays the same. Somehow, there is nothing. That is so sad. Nothing to come to. Everything is an illusion. A very sweet illusion.”

People World Struggle Sweet Development Illusion Optimism Meaningless Better Place So Sad Very Sweet

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“The crazy thing is that practical solutions exist. We don't need to perpetuate these problems. I think our hardest job is to convey a sense of optimism, show how things can get better, and get people to invest in solutions.”

People Thinking Needs Shows Problem Jobs Crazy Solutions Optimism Practicals Hardest Get Better Crazy Things Hardest Job

Author:Mark Powell

“Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.”

“When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.”

Choices Moral Issues Development Optimism Rational Analysis Moral Choices

Author:Jim Yong Kim

“I think you need optimism. I believe that's incredibly important that you be optimistic that you can do things different and still do them just as well. That's very important to success - just to have a positive outlook. I know it's not easy to do that.”

Thinking Knows Needs Believe Wells Stills Important Different I Believe Easy Can Do Optimism Optimistic Outlook Positive Outlook Being Optimistic

Author:Jim Abbott

“Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.”

Christian Belief Leadership Church Path Optimism Adversity Plus

Author:Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

“Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead.”

People Christian Opportunity Leadership Vision Optimism Difficulty Pushing Optimist Pessimist Optimism And Hope

Book:Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

“Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.”

Real God Moving Spirituality Religious Effort Moral Movement Morality Limits Optimism Personal Growth Improvement Engaged Acquire Ethical Being Real Keep Moving Forward Serving Others

Author:Felix Adler

“Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.”

May Children Play Games Loses Views Worst Circumstances Gains Optimism Arise Pessimism Disappointed

Author:Thomas Hardy

“There is a good side to every situation.”

Sides Situation Optimism Bad Day

Author:David J. Schwartz

“Each day provides its own gifts.”

Life Gratitude Optimism Philosophical Each Day

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.”

Persons Light Possibility Shadow Optimism Optimistic Optimist Pessimist Idealist

Author:Felix Adler

“I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.”

Ifs Knows Believe Use Moving Choices Fighting Left I Believe Feet Tomorrow Optimism Stronger Grateful Muscles Flats Keep Moving Just Keep Moving Best Is Yet To Come Pollyanna

Author:Robin Roberts

“It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!”

Believe Optimism Optimist Best Is Yet To Come

Author:Robin Roberts

“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”

Music Singing Optimism Crisis Existential Tedious

Author:Virgil

“My optimism for life carried through my work.”

Author:John Dyer

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

Should Winning Approach Optimism Election

Author:Gary Johnson

“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.”

People Ifs Way Believe Vision Optimism Strategy Don't Believe Concrete Believe You Can Matched Visions Of The Future

Author:Seth

“Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”

Use Optimism Stronger Muscles

Author:Robin Roberts

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”

Literature House Inspiring Sadness Optimism Guilt Misery Optimistic Pens Jane Mansfield Park

Author:Jane Austen

“I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.”

Three House Leadership Creative Environment Optimism Ultimate Competition Wounds Drivers Competing Rivals Three Things

Author:Enzo Ferrari

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

Attitude Records Optimism Nuts Optimist

Book: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

Source: 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