Quotes About Optimism

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

When I speak to people I worked with when I was young, they constantly tell me they wish their students would work half as hard as I did. I was always one to get a lot more out of myself, seeing the glass as half-empty rather than half-full.

It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I'm not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full.

Sometimes I feel my glass is a bit half empty and I am a bit Eeyore-ish.

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.

It's hard to take off the rose colored glasses because I like to enjoy my life to the fullest with a light heart and believe everyone is kind.

I'm like a little Pollyanna. I look at the world with rose-colored glasses.

When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn.

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.

I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.

Life is never a bed of roses, but it's not all doom and gloom either.

I don't want to do death any more. I don't want to do doom and gloom. I want to do life and love.

I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.

I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

I think my goal is to play every day because I believe that I can still play every day.

Life goes on, and one should look ahead and not backward.

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

Nothing truly bad happens. There's always good and bad in any changes.

Dallas is obnoxiously positive. He's been a good friend to me.

Build Back Better did not make the finish line; it stumbled right at the ribbon. And its death, by the way, is good news for Americans.

There's always hope in 'The Fosters.' These are fundamentally good people who are all trying their best and making some terrible, terrible decisions, but they're trying their best. And there's always hope for those people.

I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.