Quotes by Optimism Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate. Daniel Kahneman optimism optimistic people I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt. Dar Williams optimism optimistic feelings I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility. David Brooks optimism leader thinking If you're self-compassionate, you'll tend to have higher self-esteem than if you're endlessly self-critical. And like high self-esteem - self-compassion is associated with significantly less anxiety and depression, as well as more happiness, optimism, and positive emotions. David D. Burns optimism compassion self-esteem Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal. David Deutsch optimism stars people There is a good side to every situation. David J. Schwartz optimism bad-day sides Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. David Landes optimism eye wisdom Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope. David Limbaugh optimism america commitment Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. David Myers pessimism complacency optimism Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall. David Myers optimism pride fall I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the black. We're feeling really good about what's going on in Brazil. David Neeleman optimism feelings thinking True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it. David Richo optimism survival pain There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking. David Rakoff optimism optimistic thinking I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it? David Remnick optimism responsible adults Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. (161) David Wroblewski optimism light order A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious. Dee Dee Myers optimism people ideas I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian. Denis Hayes faith-based parental optimism Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks. Denis Waitley optimism goal sight Because of my life experience and because of my public life experience, I have the ability to lead this nation and to bring all people together and to lift up the cause of this nation so that we once again become a nation that comes from the heart and reconnect with our optimism to really create a nation that we can all be proud of. Dennis Kucinich optimism heart people That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each. Dick Thornburgh optimism should want «1234567891011»
