Quotes About Optimism

It's nice to be cheered, but I'll always have a good attitude on the pitch.

We have to play the game, you can't go on to the pitch thinking the game is already lost.

I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.

Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

I plan to live to be 120!

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.

My parents taught me not to complain, to always go forward. They taught me to always finish what I had on my plate. It seems ridiculous but these are little things that in the end make you stronger.

If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives, belief that the way things are isn't the way things need to be.

I just go out there and play basketball. I'm not worried about missing. I just got to be thinking about the next shot.

For me, it's whatever happens, happens. I'm just excited to play basketball. It's a blessing.

I was brought up to always see the glass half full instead of half empty and played my cricket that way.