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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pessimist
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- Nov 07, 2020
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
- Nov 07, 2020
Optimism is the key.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
- Nov 07, 2020
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do they see opportunity as essentially everywhere and unlimited? It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Nov 07, 2020
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
- Alight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people exercise, we talk about endorphins, but endorphins are just short-term. The reason why exercise is valuable is it trains your brain to believe, 'My behavior matters,' which is optimism.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.
- Pessimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
- Galaxy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original 'Star Trek' is very much a product of the '60s - the new frontier, optimism, the idea of bringing democracy to the galaxy. It's still a timeless show, but it's very much a show made in the 1960s.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is acting out optimism.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get teased a lot for my optimism.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son Ishaan's passion for movies and his exposure to world cinema infuses me with optimism.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
- Deemed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on the left is supposed to be about unbounded optimism, a belief that what is deemed politically impossible by the 'sensible grownups' of politics can be realised, with sufficient imagination and determination.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
- Nov 07, 2020
Optimism can be relearnt.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, I'm happy to go on record as saying that the ability to create a reality distortion field is right up there alongside optimism as an entrepreneur's most valuable weapon.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a Tony voter; it is an honor that I take seriously. Each season, I enter the process with a degree of enthusiasm and optimism, which dissipates as I slowly plow through show after show.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.
- Hard Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creative industries, a source of optimism in recent years owing to, among other things, a resurgence on the world stage of British music, have come out foursquare against Brexit.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among immigrants today, it is increasingly fashionable to reject American exceptionalism in favor of multiculturalism. To pretend that this isn't happening isn't optimism; it's sheer fantasy.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My optimism has helped me through some hard times. If you try to send out good things, good things come back to you.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
- Facile
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.
- Dislike
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020