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My optimism for life carried through my work.

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.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

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.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

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.

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.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

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

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.