Quotes About Optimists

This time she was sure she managed a grin. 'I can't figure you, Hicks. Soldiers aren't supposed to be optimists.' 'Yeah, I know. You're not the first to point it out. I'm a freakin' anomaly.

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.

the following September I started at the grammar school. This was in a red-brick building of the kind beloved by Victorian optimists. In

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

growth is on the way, argue technology optimists such as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: thanks to the exponential growth in digital processing power, we are entering the 'second machine age' in which the fast-rising productivity of robots will drive a new wave of GDP growth.

Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.

Swakhammer bid Rector good-bye, telling him to stay out of trouble. Rector wondered why everyone always told him that, since it never did a bit of good. Maybe they were all just optimists. Up

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

Both my wife and I are optimists and we look at the positives in life.

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

Who else but utopians could make utopia?

In addition, we still do not really know how the brain creates emotions. We do not know why some people are more prone to negative thinking and gloomy moods throughout their lives, whereas others seem to be eternal optimists who always have a positive outlook and a cheerful disposition.

The peace of dead souls. Every day the world shrivels me. A world of word-twisters. Of optimists done up in tutus.