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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
Howard Gardner
I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!
David Agus
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
Mike Dirnt
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
Elizabeth Peters
The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.
Steve Aylett
I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.
Amanda Holden
I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
Holt McCallany
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
Julian Baggini
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
Octavia Spencer
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert G. Allen
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.
Ron Silver
I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
Sally Hawkins
Harriet lived in Connecticut and influenced antislavery in her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Harriet was a optimist who expressed her feelings by writing. Harriet was listed as one of the people who started the civil war. She started it from one of her books (It was the most influencial book in all of American History) However, Harriet was a very successful person and never stood down.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Optimism' is the perfect way to trivialize everything that Reagan was or did. [...] Optimism? Every other person on the No. 6 bus is an optimist. What distinguished Reagan was what he did and said. Reagan was optimistic about America amid the cynicism and general retreat of the post-Vietnam era because he believed unfashionably that America was both great and good.
Charles Krauthammer
I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.
Leymah Gbowee
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
Michael Pollan
"Art is an optimist,” Nadia said to Maya as they walked on. "Art is an idiot,” Maya replied.
Kim Stanley Robinson
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Terence
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
G. K. Chesterton
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