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I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

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A.S. King
American - Writer
Born: March 10, 1970

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

Alan Cohen

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

Daniel Kahneman

Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

Josemaria Escriva

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

Adam Rippon

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Ramez Naam

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says "don't worry - everything will be just fine" and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Ramez Naam

Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism that sinks its roots into an awareness of our freedom, and the sure knowledge of the power of grace. It is an optimism that leads us to make demands on ourselves, to struggle to respond at every moment to God's call.

Josemaria Escriva

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

Paul Valery

Optimism, positivity and faith create the foundation from which success can be built.

Sharon Lechter

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

John Bradshaw

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

Orison Swett Marden

Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

C. J. Anderson

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

Samuel Johnson

It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls toward the future, it's what lets you pull on the line and reach what you're aiming for and head in the right direction. Hope is also theological: God is there, too.

Pope Francis

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

Walter Savage Landor

I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.

Daniel Kahneman

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