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  • Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

    Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books
  • It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I'm an optimist. I have faith in people and our government ultimately to do the right thing. And to my brothers and sisters in California, I'm there with you every step of the way until that day comes...

    Brother   Heart   Gay  
    "It Is Not A Matter of If, But Only A Matter of When" by Russell Simmons, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2009.
  • You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

    Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.250, Penguin
  • I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

    Reality   Iraq   Realist  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

    Morning   Heart   Dark  
    "Interview: Michael Morpurgo, Running Wild". Interview With Lisa Bower, www.altblackpool.co.uk. February 27, 2017.
  • Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

  • Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

    Dog   Horse   Motivation  
    Letter to James F. Morton (1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 483), 1996.
  • I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That doesn't mean I create perfect stories and perfect people, however. What this means is that my stories are resolved in a manner that leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and happy expectation . . . and wanting to reach for another one of my books.

    Book   Mean   People  
    Source: bookpage.com
  • 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
  • By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

    Trying   Optimist   Ifs  
    "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.
  • Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

  • I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.

    "Moore wants a baby with Kutcher". www.express.co.uk. September 3, 2009.
  • I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon." "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.

    Beautiful   Song   Dad  
    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

  • Surround yourself with optimistic people.

    FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 19, 2014
  • There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

  • I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

  • I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.

  • In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

    Pain   Passion   Justice  
  • I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

  • I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

  • When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

    Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.143, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?

  • I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out of this situation with a richer humanity with less impact on the planet, but now I think it has to be paired with effective policy in order to achieve that.

    "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.
  • Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

    Twitter post from Feb 02, 2017
  • Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

  • an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

    Eye   Men   Feet  
    Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
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