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There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
- Harry Stack Sullivan
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One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
- John Wells
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Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.
- James Gunn
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I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley.
- John Collison
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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.'
- Colum McCann
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It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.
- J. D. Vance
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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.
- Harry Nilsson
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But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
- John Hench
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I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.
- John Hench
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
- J. D. Vance
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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.
- Douglas Southall Freeman
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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.
- Earle Brown
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Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.
- Daniel Kahneman
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History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.
- Stephane Hessel
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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.
- Colin Wilson
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I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
- Tom Hanks
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Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
- Lev Yilmaz
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Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
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Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.
- Wolfgang Schauble
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I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.
- Hilda Solis
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I remember coming up in the business and seeing how the grind turned some executives into grizzled cynics. And I vowed to never become that guy. I have always believed it's incumbent upon network brass to bring a wide-eyed optimism to the chairs they rent. Talent deserves that. And frankly, the jobs are just no fun otherwise.
- Kevin Reilly
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Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.
- Stephen Merchant
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Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.
- Roberto Baggio
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Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.
- Penelope Mitchell
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There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
- David Rakoff
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The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.
- Bari Weiss
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Children are my favorite people, because they inspire me with their optimism and spirit.
- Dia Mirza
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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.
- Bibi Bourelly
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
- Wendy Davis
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Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.
- Jim Ramstad
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
- Vernor Vinge
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Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.
- Todd Solondz
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There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
- Jim Leach
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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.
- Eskinder Nega
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My optimism for life carried through my work.
- John Dyer
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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.
- Dave Eggers
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I like to keep working and keep changing. It's a hopeful, optimistic thing to think and sit about what you could do next. Maybe it's blind optimism.
- Samuel Ervin Beam
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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.
- Gary Frank
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I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.
- Jordan Gavaris
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I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.
- Dolores O'Riordan
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
- Kate Reardon
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I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
- Sylvester Stallone
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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.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.
- Jane McGonigal
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I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
- Herbert Croly
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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.
- David Souter
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
- Stephen Ambrose
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I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!
- Terry Jones
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George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.
- Mark McKinnon
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Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
- Antonio Gramsci
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The creative industries, a source of optimism in recent years owing to, among other things, a resurgence on the world stage of British music, have come out foursquare against Brexit.
- Layla Moran
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
- Twyla Tharp
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If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?
- Matt Haig
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Optimism leads to investment, and anything that our government can do to reinforce optimism in our economy is good.
- Mike Parson
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Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.
- Martin Seligman
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What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
- Bob Iger
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In fact, I'm happy to go on record as saying that the ability to create a reality distortion field is right up there alongside optimism as an entrepreneur's most valuable weapon.
- Marc Randolph
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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.
- Charlie Crist
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Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.
- Dustin Lance Black
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We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.
- Nancy Wilson
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Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
- Gary Johnson
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I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
- Jon Anderson
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The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
- Mitch Daniels
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For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
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As a Californian, I feel lucky to live in what is truly the Golden State - a place of sunshine, agricultural bounty, natural beauty, technological innovation, and boundless optimism.
- Tom Steyer
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We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.
- Dan Crenshaw
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The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.
- Martin O'Malley
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Optimism is the foundation of courage.
- Nicholas M. Butler
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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.
- Drew Houston
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On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
- Kevin Rudd
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
- Ramez Naam
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My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.
- Brad Feld
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The silver screen offers much in the way of over-the-top rom-coms, long lost love, saddening love stories and heart warming optimism that can spark feelings in anyone.
- Hilary Farr
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
- Patricia Ireland
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When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we've had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we've had since about the 1930s. I don't blame the Internet for that - that would be ridiculous.
- Tyler Cowen
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I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.
- Mitt Romney
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Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.
- Morris Gleitzman
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If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
- Francis Parker Yockey
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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.
- Edward Steichen
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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.
- Erik Larson
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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.
- Erik Larson
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I reckon every player feels much the same on the eve of a Six Nations championship. We all want to finish top, win the title and do our respective countries proud in the process. We're also aware a lot of other people are seeking precisely the same thing. Pessimism and optimism collide like two ferrets in a sack.
- James Haskell
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Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.
- Mary Quant
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For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.
- Sheri L. Dew
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
- Olivia Wilde
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When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
- Eric Betzig
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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
- Robert Hewison
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I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
- Paul Fussell
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What keeps athletes going is the optimism we are going to be able to compete again.
- Mark Cavendish
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I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.
- Isoroku Yamamoto
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
- George Santayana
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
- Elbert Hubbard
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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Stephen Hawking
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
- Oscar Wilde
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The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
- Brian May
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I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.
- Matthew Williamson
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You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.
- Goldie Hawn
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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.
- Gloria Estefan
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