Quotes About Optimism

I think that the most well-intentioned, optimistic, creative people often live for the moment, and for 'Portlandia,' our goals were always very sort of short-term and attainable.

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.

I was born on the west side of Chicago, and there was quite a bit of poverty. My family and I didn't have exactly the best or the most optimal financial situation in my youth, but we turned out well. My mom always made sure that we got a proper education and that we dedicated ourselves to our work.

In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

There are so many great things happening in West Virginia, and I will continue to work every day to move our state forward.

That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.

I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There are moments, of course, when you think that it's going from bad to worse, but there are other moments when you think that human efforts are really flowering into something really fantastic.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

It is not that Covid is going to impede the progress of humanity. It is not as much a changing event as it was being predicted, according to me.

These dire predictions of COVID are behind us. Covid is getting milder and people are learning to treat it better. The percentage of deaths is coming down. We are learning to live with it.

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

I see myself as a Premier League player. If I see myself as a Championship player, that's not good enough. You have to aim higher and if you come just short then it's not too bad.

I would love to play in the Premier League; which player wouldn't? I am happy at AC Milan, but never say never.

I do believe I'm a Premier League player, and I do believe I'm an England international when I'm fit and on form.