Quotes About Optimism

I am very, very optimistic that India is going to do well. Our economy has strong fundamentals, can withstand any cyclical winds.

If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.

I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

I was running super slow. Chris thought I was done. Then one day at the end of February, I woke up and my body felt good. I was just so happy. I was faster than my brother again. I got all my moves back. I told him, 'Brother, I'm back, and now you're done!'

I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best years of my life!' When I was filming 'The Wolf Of Wall Street,' I said, 'These are the best months of my life!' I always think I'm having the best time ever, and that I'll never have so much fun again.

We like to imagine that women would do a better job of ruling the world - and I'm one of those optimists - but women aren't a superior kind of life form just because of our gender. We're awesome but not perfect. We're human. Just like men.

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

I figure if I keep my spirit in shape, the bones will take care of themselves.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

I have a theory that people are either born 'yeses' or 'nos'.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

You know, Theresa May, she's doing the best she can with not a great hand, a little bit like Chase Carey really.

They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.

They say when you break your leg, you get a little taller and a little faster, and I got both, I think.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

They say 'Ted Cruz can't win.' Really? Have you talked to Ted?

As players you need to have thick skin and we need to have belief that you will have bad days but it's about making sure you have more good days than bad.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.