Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Zimbalist

I think the press has been sucked in by the rhetoric of brinkmanship. I've been optimistic all along.

William McDonough

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

Zig Ziglar

I'm so Optimistic I'll take my last 2 dollars and buy a Money Belt.

Norma Martinez

I'm trying to be optimistic but it's hard.

Francis Cheung

I'm cautiously optimistic that it will work out well for the industry.

Andre Agassi

I really, really want to. I plan on it. I'm optimistic about it.

Shigeru Omi

I'm quite optimistic on how much support will be given.

David Steele

I'm probably the most optimistic person in the country, ... The only way for me to go is up.

Mark Vaile

I'm not as optimistic as I was, but it's not all over. The parties are still talking,

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Richard P. Feynman

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Whately

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

William S. Burroughs

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

Woody Allen

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Will Smith

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

Will Smith

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.

Virginia Woolf

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

Virginia Woolf

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf

I have had my vision.

Samuel Goldwyn

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

Wayne Dyer

I am worthy of attracting unlimited abundance and prosperity into my life, regardless of what life experiences have gone before me. I only reinforce and contemplate images that are in harmony with this vision.

Van Morrison

Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.