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  • So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

  • My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

    Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.
  • Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

    "Gaming can make a better world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2010.
  • False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

  • There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

    Heart   Simple   Optimism  
    Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd
  • Sanguine chuckled. "I like you, boy. You got optimism in these bones. I like you so much that I ain't gonna tell you what I did to poor old Jethro, the first Jethro, may he rest in peace, may they someday find his head.

  • Demonstrating faith and optimism in the child or adolescent's ability to work things out in their own time and in their own way can be very difficult but it is possible to do this while also offering assistance.

    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

  • If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!

  • One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

    Optimism   Looks   Kind  
    Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (1998). “Tony Kushner in Conversation”, p.148, University of Michigan Press
  • Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.

  • I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

  • Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

  • Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

  • Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.

    Optimism   Flow   Built  
  • A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

    Funny   Women   Silly  
    "FPA Book of Quotations : A New Collection of Famous Sayings". Book by Franklin Pierce Adams, 1952.
  • Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

  • To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.

    Men   Essence   Optimism  
    Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan
  • Optimism is lack of information.

  • The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century

  • Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

  • In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the very root of our being. Dr. Bruteau is a philosopher of great measure whose work should be required reading for all who seek the deepest truth about themselves.

  • I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

    "A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 1987.
  • Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

  • Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

    Success   Dream   Glasses  
  • Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

  • You know, you have to start with hope...you don't get anywhere in this country without hope. So it's a necessity. What Barack says is that people have to understand hope isn't just blind optimism. It isn't passive. It isn't just sitting there waiting for things to get better. Hope is the vision that you have to have. It's the inspiration that moves people into action...There are more people engaged in this political process in this year than we've seen in my lifetime. And it is all because of hope because people believe in the possibility of something unseen.

  • There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.

  • Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

    Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin
  • Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

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