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I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.
Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.
In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
It's all about believing in yourself and knowing your worth and being optimistic and really just loving yourself for who you are.
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.
I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward.
I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.
You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.
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.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
Red is a strong, happy, optimistic color, and I like having fun with it, you know? Like, when colors clash - I love that strangeness.
Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
I would say that, between us, I tend to be a little bit more philosophically optimistic. Jonah, I think he sees things as more finite.
I love the optimistic American style that Gap celebrates and the simplicity of the basic white T-shirt that allows you to be yourself.
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.
I always kid the president in different circumstances. Mr. President, a country's never going to be more optimistic than the president.
I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.
Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.
Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
I am optimistic about the future. Brethren, for our part, we must remain steadfast in hope, work with all our strength, and trust in God.
I'm a very optimistic person, woman, mother and singer. And at the same time, I'm very realistic when I look at other aspects of my life.
The biggest obstacle that you can have is all inside your head, so I try every day to be optimistic and keep dreaming about great things!
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!
The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.
I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.
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.
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.
I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.
When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords.