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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
I'm generally an optimist, but of course, when you've been with the UFC for a decade and still not had a title shot, there is a little part of you that wonders if it will ever happen.
I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.
By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.
I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.
The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet.
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.
I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.
I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.
Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.
I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.
I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.
I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way.
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.
Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?
I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile.
I am one of those guys that's an optimist. I am always optimistic. I don't know how you can be any other way.
We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.
If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.
