Top 1200 Blind Optimism Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

In the room, when I'm playing SpongeBob, I'm optimistic and I'm happy, and I smile in the face of those who are upset in order to make them happier. You know, there's this overwhelming optimism. And I've been lucky enough to have that become a part of my life. I like to think that it's influenced me.

You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country... That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

People give me advice all the time, and I don't take a blind bit of notice.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.

It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

I didn't have romances when I was in school. Girls didn't want to go out with me because I was blind.

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.

My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. People had such a boundless sense of optimism; They felt they could do anything they wanted to do, and they went out and tried to do it.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

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.

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain.

To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

I was very lucky that my first film, 'The Blind Side,' I worked with Sandra Bullock.

I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the black. We're feeling really good about what's going on in Brazil.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.

The jobs I've gotten are usually the ones where I go in cold or blind in terms of what they're after and I pitch my take on it.

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do they see opportunity as essentially everywhere and unlimited? It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.

Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.

Attitudes of optimism, of "let them be", and of joy in watching and helping another life develop and blossom will help parents relish their parenting role and will provide the resilience necessary to navigate turbulent times.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.