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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.
Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.
Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.
The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.
Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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.
Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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.
I think the fundamentals of the economy are finally in the electronic economy and they are strong are we have reason for great optimism.
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.
How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.
The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.
...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.
If we make every day better than the one before, today will be the best day yet, and the greatest days ever will await us in every tomorrow.
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.
One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.
May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.
What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.
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.
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.