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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
I have this weird optimism that when things are not good - like, really, genuinely not good - that we shall persevere.
... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.
I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.
I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.
What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.
Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living.
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
I think it mostly comes down to trying to align with people who are down with a mission and will bring optimism.
We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
As a Californian, I feel lucky to live in what is truly the Golden State - a place of sunshine, agricultural bounty, natural beauty, technological innovation, and boundless optimism.
Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.
I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.
I think optimism and humour are key words for me to make the films accessible, which means they can really travel and be seen by as many people as possible.
The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.
In fact, I'm happy to go on record as saying that the ability to create a reality distortion field is right up there alongside optimism as an entrepreneur's most valuable weapon.
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.
Being on the left is supposed to be about unbounded optimism, a belief that what is deemed politically impossible by the 'sensible grownups' of politics can be realised, with sufficient imagination and determination.
For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
We always had a lot of optimism for this game, New World.' Customers really liked it; it tested really well.
A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.
Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.
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.
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
I think the fundamentals of the economy are finally in the electronic economy and they are strong are we have reason for great optimism.
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.
I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.