Top 1200 Optimistic Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm a person who tries to be compassionate, caring, and warm to every single person I meet.

Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he makes the right mistake. In other words he's optimistic he will create something good by virtue of getting something "wrong."

'Sticky' is about reaching a point in a relationship where you both realize you guys shouldn't be dating, but you're doing it anyway just because you like to have that sense of just being able to be honest with the person and comfortable with the person. You kind of ignore all of the signs and red flags because you really want to like the person.

Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

To be truly intimate with another person, is to share every aspect of yourself with that person.

If I have to choose one person, the one person who inspired Rajpal Yadav is Raj Kapoor saab.

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience ends up with your money.

Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

The most important thing is how you are as a person, and then like a professional person.

I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That's the hardest thing to find.

The camera doesn't make you a better person, it doesn't even change the person that you are, it just magnifies who you are.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Possibly, a crush is merely the attraction a person has for another person. Most relationships start with some sort of attraction. You see someone you like or you see things about a person you like and feel attracted to them. Many mistake this for love, but attraction is a powerful force.

The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

But while I'm realistic about our challenges, I'm optimistic about our future. There are a few things, and if we do them, we're going to have the greatest era in our history. And I have detailed what those things are specifically.

A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.

I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them, because it was either a job that person didn't want to do or didn't exist.

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.

It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm.

The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.

A developer who is not optimistic shouldn't be a developer.

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.

We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.

I'm a very private person, not much of a party person. That's how I keep my sanity.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good news and wishful thinking to bad news; and that there are always vested interests to offer facile, optimistic alternatives to the bad news.

Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.

When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

There's not one person in this state who believes they are going to have a job in my administration... There's not one person who I've promised anything to.

An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want

I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When an ignorant person laughs, his laughter is very aggressive, egoistic. The ignorant person always laughs at others. The contented person, the person who knows life a little, laughs at himself - at the whole play of life itself. It is not addressed to anybody in particular. He just laughs at the absurdity of it all... the impossibility of it all.

As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.

I'm not a violent person, but I'm a capable person. I'm never looking for a fight. But I'm always ready for one.

I think screenwriters, I think editors in the cutting room - they have a lot of responsibility that we don't think about, but they could cut the coverage of an Asian person to focus on a white person because, unknowingly, they think that white person has more to say or is more interesting.

If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased.