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“Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.”

Years Long Said Hard America Views Optimism Cycles Pessimism Realism

Author:Ron Fournier

“A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.”

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Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“My aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for my need to create a more beautiful world around me.”

World Needs Beautiful Views Optimism Cameras Point Of View Aesthetic Beautiful World Optimism And Hope

Author:Mike Ruiz

“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.”

“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

“A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.”

Humans Stills Might Views Human Nature Jokes Optimism Brutal Skeptical Satirist

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”

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Author:Alex Tan

“For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.”

Source: Invisible Man

“The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.”

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Author:Joyce Brothers

“It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.”

Inspirational Motivational Views Impossible Events Negative Optimism Point Of View

Author:Dalai Lama

“What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?”

Source: Success Is the Quality of Your Journey

“To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.”

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Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”

Age Imagination Views Optimism Prejudice Etc Bias

Author:Abdul Kalam

“Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.”

World Facts Views Optimism Midst Degeneration

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!”

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.”