quotes about Optimist
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
-- Abbie CornishSource : "Abbie Cornish Talks THE GIRL, Relating to Her Character, The Remake of ROBOCOP, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 14, 2012.
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
-- Al Gore -
I'm an un-healable positive optimist.
-- Andre RieuSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.
-- Aziz AnsariSource : "Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: “elusive and sadly ephemeral”". Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.
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I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.
-- Aziz Ansari -
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
-- Barbara Mertz -
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Optimists are happier in life for a reason.
-- Brendon BurchardSource : Brendon Burchard (2012). “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster
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I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
-- Craig Venter -
I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
-- Emily Mortimer -
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
-- Eric Sevareid -
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.
-- Harold Wilson -
I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
-- Holt McCallanySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
-- Howard Gardner -
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
-- Irv Kupcinet -
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
-- Julian Tuwim -
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed
-- Kin Hubbard -
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An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
-- Mark Twain -
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I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
-- Matt SmithSource : "Fictional character: The Doctor (Ganger)". "Doctor Who" The Almost People, May 28, 2011.
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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
-- Max Lerner -
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
-- Molly Ivins -
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An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu -
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
-- Nelson Mandela -
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
-- Rex StoutSource : Rex Stout (2010). “Fer-de-Lance”, p.3, Crimeline
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Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.
-- Robin Sharma -
I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
-- Sally HawkinsSource : "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.
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I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.
-- Sarah McLachlan -
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I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
-- Simon Sinek -
Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.
-- Steven Galloway -
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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
-- Terence Conran -
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
-- Thomas Friedman -
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
-- Tim Berners-Lee -
In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.
-- Tony Lema -
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Optimists are usually inexperienced.
-- Wayne Gerard Trotman -
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
-- Will Rogers -
You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
-- Will Rogers -
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The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly, because of the relatively poor performance of many corporations in the early part of millennial , there seems to be less arrogance in executive suites, and that usually translates to a willingness to consider alternatives.
-- James O'TooleSource : Source: bobmorris.biz
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It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.
-- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor -
I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
-- Antonio Gala -
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I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out
-- Roger Meddows Taylor -
I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
-- Roger Moore -
Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.
-- Fernando J. CorbatoSource : "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.
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"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
-- Stefano Benni -
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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.
-- Jeanette Lee -
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?
-- Joe Posnanski