Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Nolan

Am I optimistic or pessimistic? I?d have to say I?m anxious.

Edward de Bono

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

Eckhart Tolle

I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

Helen Clark

People are optimistic about the future.

John Maynard Keynes

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

John Lewis

I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

John Lewis

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Mark Shapiro

It's not done yet, but I'm optimistic that we can get it done.

Robert G. Allen

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

David Miliband

"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?"'

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You live in a time of great challenges and opportunities. As spirit sons of heavenly parents, you are free to make the right choices. This requires hard work, self-discipline, and an optimistic outlook, which will bring joy and freedom into your life now and in the future.

Dennis Lehane

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

Bob Seger

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

Bobbi Brown

I look at a woman and I don't see what's wrong with her. I see what's right.

Bernard Williams

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

Harry S Truman

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties

Ludwig von Mises

The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.

And when thinking about it, not everyone's an optimist quite yet.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Abraham Lincoln

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

Dorothy Fields

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

Claudia Rankine

I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present and a future - and what was in the past no longer exists.

Dalai Lama

I am basically optimistic.

Desmond Tutu

I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope.

Chuck D.

I always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call "inties," music distributed via the Internet. The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.

Chuck D.

I always remain optimistic.

Christopher Reeve

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

Christopher Walken

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Anne Sweeney

I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.

Daniel Kahneman

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.