Quotes About Optimism

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

I've always said, 'Before you see the rainbow, it has to storm.'

After a storm comes a calm.

Remember to play after every storm.

I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes me, and it amuses me, also, when I'm written off by the press cause then I tell them that's just the lull before the storm. And every time I've been down, I've been down, never out. So it just makes me work a lot harder.

My story shows never say never.

I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful.

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.

When you're getting to do what you want to do, you just assume you're going to hit a point where someone is like, 'No, you can't do that.' Strangely, that never happened.

I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.

I like the fact there can be so many secret places in a city filled with people. It gives me hope.

From the very beginning and indeed prior to anybody going out I knew very well what to expect from the people in command in the U.S.A. However, the best not the worst must be made of them, and there is little doubt that eventually things will be all right.

Drake always thinks the glass is half full. Me, I think the glass is half full of poison.

Ashok is composed largely of enthusiasm.

Can we do better?

Don't tell me the glass is half-full or half-empty; you either have something in that glass or you don't.

Glance at negatives, but focus on positives.

Almost any negative thought pattern can be broken with thoughts of gratitude. When you "think thanks," you dial into what you have instead of what you lack. The effect is immediate—you feel positive.

many people who failed did so because they gave up without realizing how close to success they were.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.