Quotes of: Optimism Keyword

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.

Linda Lingle

We must return to optimism in our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

Fred G. Gosman

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

Harry Stack Sullivan

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

Bill Gurley

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

Bruce Springsteen

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Doris Lessing

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Jonathan Kellerman

Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.

Morris Gleitzman

When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.

Philip M. Parker

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Tom Stoppard

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

Augusten Burroughs

Positive emotions, such as the feelings of love, kindness, self-worth, confidence and optimism, produce a better person and a good destiny.

Auliq Ice

Dear Optimism, nice to see you. I've got an extra room, how about you stay for a while.

Antonia Perdu

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

Ariel Sharon

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Virginia Woolf

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Stephen Ambrose

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Flashes of Thought

A big refugee camp governed by real terror and artificially pumped-up optimism - like the bastard child of Butlins and Colditz.

The Girl with All the Gifts

If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.

The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

The Art of Counseling

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

Agnes and the Hitman