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I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
Life doesn't always end up where you want it to go; you have to be an optimist and keep moving forward.
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.
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.
I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.
I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
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?
There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.
Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.
I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.
I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
I'm not really good at worrying. I think I get that from my pops. He can be in some really dire straights and be a real optimist, so I don't sweat the petty stuff.
To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.
I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.
An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.
I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.