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Letter "O" » Optimism
«The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.»
Author: Annie Lennox
(Composer, Singer, Songwriter)
| About:
Future,
Optimism,
Past,
Present,
Reality
«Teaching is the greatest act of optimism»
«That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.»
Author: George Foreman
(Boxer)
| About:
Gifts,
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
duck, fights, fight back, negativity, roll, roll off
«The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever.Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles.The mystery of India, say Indologists.»
«Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.»
«The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.»
«Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.»
Author: Senator John Kerry
(Senator)
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Optimism,
Politics,
Vision
| Keywords:
edges, tinkering, tinkers
«Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.»
«Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
optimism, pessimism, weakness
«Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists»
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