Quotes About Optimism

When I said I could beat Alexander Gustafsson in a standup fight, people laughed at me. They thought, 'No way.' But I believe in what I'm seeing every day.

Stanley Johnson's going to be a great player in this league.

I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.

For me, stardom is feeling happiness and being positive.

My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

Mentally, you can't expect positive things to start happening in your life with a negative attitude.

I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

Any kind of business or start-up you have, you're going to be faced with a lot of people who maybe don't believe in it or see the vision or just say no. The key is seeing beyond that and really trying to not let the no's get you down.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

There's nothing wrong in starting all over again and taking it step-by-step.

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.

Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.

I'll never starve.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

'World On Fire' isn't necessarily a profound statement about where we are as a planet. It's about living life to the fullest... carpe diem.

There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.