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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Quotes by Havelock Ellis

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

Quotes by Harry Nilsson

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

Quotes by Harry Stack Sullivan

The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

Quotes by Hamish Bowles

Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.

Quotes by Gray Scott

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

Quotes by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

Quotes by Gloria Estefan

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.

Quotes by George Will

You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.

Quotes by George Stephanopoulos

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

Quotes by Gary Johnson

I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

Quotes by Gary Frank

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

Quotes by Fred G. Gosman

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Quotes by Francis Parker Yockey

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

Quotes by Evan Williams

A good attitude is really important. And a sense of optimism, someone who has ideas and isn't afraid to pitch them no matter what level she is. Someone who is proactive. Someone with efficiency and common sense. They don't always go hand-in-hand, common sense and, well, everything else.

Quotes by Eva Chen

I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.

Quotes by Eskinder Nega

My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. People had such a boundless sense of optimism; They felt they could do anything they wanted to do, and they went out and tried to do it.

Quotes by Erik Larson

The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.

Quotes by Erik Larson

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Quotes by Edward Steichen

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

Quotes by Edward C. Prescott

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

Quotes by Earle Brown

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

Quotes by Drew Houston

I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

Quotes by Douglas Southall Freeman

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Quotes by Doris Lessing

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Quotes by Dee Dee Myers

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

Quotes by David Souter

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Quotes by David Rakoff

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

Quotes by David Limbaugh

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

Quotes by David Carson

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

Quotes by Dave Eggers

It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.

Quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.

Quotes by Dan Crenshaw

The Republican Party has to be the party of optimism and giving our children a better starting point. We have to make sure we're broader, more inclusive, and reaching out to every community.

Quotes by Cory Gardner

I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'

Quotes by Colum McCann

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Quotes by Colin Powell

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

Quotes by Colin Wilson

My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.

Quotes by Chelsea Clinton

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

Quotes by Charlie Crist

I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.

Quotes by Charles Dance

My priorities are going to be to play a very balanced role in the sense that I have to keep an eye on the challenges in the environment. At the same time, I have to keep an eye on the optimism that is there for India.

Quotes by Chanda Kochhar

We can all think we're discriminated against, and I'm sure many of us are. But I see a ton of optimism in corporate America around the advancement and retention of women.

Quotes by Cathy Engelbert

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

Quotes by Brian May

My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

Quotes by Brad Feld

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Quotes by Bob Iger

True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

Quotes by Bibi Bourelly

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

Quotes by Bernard Beckett

With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.

Quotes by Bernard L. Schwartz

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

When Barack Obama arrived in Washington, many in the media welcomed him with optimism as a historic figure focused on progressive change. But their overwhelmingly favorable treatment of him ultimately turned Americans who disagreed with Obama's policies away from traditional media sources they came to distrust.

Quotes by Ben Domenech

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

Quotes by bell hooks

The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.

Quotes by Bari Weiss

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

Quotes by Astro Teller

If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.

Quotes by Astro Teller

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Quotes by Arnold Bennett

The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans.

Quotes by Arancha Gonzalez

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Quotes by Antonio Gramsci

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

Quotes by Anna Deavere Smith

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

Quotes by Andrew Solomon

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.

Quotes by Alethea Kontis

You have a lot of optimism when you are young.

Quotes by Alec Baldwin

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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