Quotes About Optimism

Success begins with a fellow's will- It's all in the state of mind. If you think you are outclassed, you are, You've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better'

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

Día tras día, en todos los aspectos, me va mejor y mejor»

Do not expect troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost for out of the world we find, Success begins with a fellow's will – It's all in the state of mind. "If you think you are outclassed, you are, you've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

I BELIEVE THAT CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH ONE WHO REFUSES TO COMPROMISE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES HE DOES NOT LIKE, IS AN ASSET THAT CAN NEVER BE MEASURED IN TERMS OF MONEY.

Happiness is always just around the bend; always in sight but just out of reach.

There is a Yiddish saying: "If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind.

As Ennius wrote, "The good is mostly in the absence of bad"; Nimium boni est, cui nihil est mali.

For an idea to have survived so long across so many cycles is indicative of its relative fitness. Noise, at least some noise, was filtered out. Mathematically, progress means that some new information is better than past information, not that the average of new information will supplant past information, which means that it is optimal for someone, when in doubt, to systematically reject the new idea, information, or method. Clearly and shockingly, always. Why?

There is a Yiddish saying: "If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind." If I am going to be fooled by randomness, it better be of the beautiful (and harmless) kind.

Seneca's version of that Stoicism is antifragility from fate. No downside from Lady Fortuna, plenty of upside.

The entire notion of biography is grounded in the arbitrary ascription of a causal relation between specified traits and subsequent events. Now consider the cemetery. The graveyard of failed persons will be full of people who shared the following traits: courage, risk taking, optimism, et cetera. Just like the population of millionaires. There may be some differences in skills, but what truly separates the two is for the most part a single factor: luck. Plain luck.

your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive affect," than on their intensity when they hit. In

all we need is the ability to accept that what we have on our hands is better than what we had before

the blindness of hope

Even Fleming lost faith in the idea before it was subsequently revived.

good news is good news first; how good matters rather little.

Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

investors are led to overestimate their chances of success.

The good is not as good as the absence of bad.

Sometimes that's all you can do. Hope.