A Quote by Stewart D. Friedman

I'm a humanist and an optimist. — © Stewart D. Friedman
I'm a humanist and an optimist.

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I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.
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.
The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday.
He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.
I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.
I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.
It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.
I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.
You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
I'm still a hard-edged reporter, but I'm an optimist. I'm a perpetual optimist.
We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.
People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
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