Quotes About Optimism

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

My policy is, why wait? If you're going to look back and laugh, you might as well start laughing.

If you're looking for difficulties, you'll always find them. If you ask the question, What can go wrong? then something probably will. On the other hand, if you're asking the question, What works? then you can find it and, in this case, I did.

I'd disagree with the characterisations of him as competitive (which I think was just misinterpretation of his ambition) or secretive (which I think is more about wanting to protect his team and his customers). Jeff [Bezos] could much more accurately be described as a naively optimistic geek than a calculating megalomaniac.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

Moderation was the effect of congenital optimism. Why push too hard at an open door?

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Believe you can and you're halfway there." ? Theodore Roosevelt

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Virginia Stauffer

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

We cling to our hearts, to what warms them, to what gives us hope, to things we can look upon and know the world will someday be okay again.

Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.'350

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

Maybe the fact that nobody believes in magic and wood sprites and happiness is the problem of the day. [Ludi]

Unrealistic optimism is a pervasive feature of human life; it characterizes most people in most social categories. When they overestimate their personal immunity from harm, people may fail to take sensible preventive steps. If people are running risks because of unrealistic optimism, they might be able to benefit from a nudge. In fact, we have already mentioned one possibility: if people are reminded of a bad event, they may not continue to be so optimistic.

Many start with unrealistic expectations about the chance of success: the vast majority believe their chance of success to be far above average, and a third or so believe their success is a sure thing (Cooper, Woo, and Dunkelberg, 1988)!