Quotes by Optimistic The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. John Templeton optimistichumblethinking I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers and students both-but they did not come up with many new concepts. They weren't invited to come up with new concepts. Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church. John Templeton optimisticteachingteacher Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century. John Templeton optimisticaveragelong See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money. Right now the value is in non-callable bonds. Most bonds are callable so when they start going up in price, the debtor calls them away from you. But the non-callable bonds, especially those non-callable for 25-30 years, can go way up in price if interest rates go way down. John Templeton optimisticoceanyears When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. John F. Kennedy optimisticpositivethinking If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs. John Templeton optimisticgovernmentspiritual In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely. John Templeton optimistichumilityhumble It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm. John Wyndham optimisticracecomforting Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others. John Wooden optimisticbasketballthinking I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism. Jon Anderson optimismoptimisticthinking It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about. John Green hipsteroptimisticnumbers Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going. Jon Gordon being-disappointedwhere-you-areoptimistic Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you. John Wooden optimisticbasketballstrong Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow. Jonathan Carroll optimisticfalling-in-lovemen Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future. Jonathan Nolan optimisticwaitinglong It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing. Jonathan Schell optimisticwinningwar Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make. Jonathon Keats engineeringoptimisticway Since I live part of the year in Italy, I live in a society in which I'm the optimistic American relative to the people who I'm around there. And that has actually brought to my attention the fact that I do have some sort of optimism and has made me think about it enough that I can attempt an answer. Jonathon Keats optimisticyearsthinking Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones Joseph A. Schumpeter investingoptimisticvision I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money? Jose Saramago empiresoptimisticpeople«1920212223242526272829»
