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Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle... Barack Obama
I am locked in a very expensive suitold elegant and enduring. Only my hair has been able to get freebut someone has been leavingtheir dandruff in it. Now I will tell youall there is to know about optimism. Each day in hub cap mirrorin soup reflectionin other people's spectacles. I check my hairfor an army of alpinistsfor Indian rope trick mastersfor tangled aviatorsfor dove and albatrossfor insect suicidesfor abominable snowmen. I check my hairfor aerialists of every kind. Dedicated as an... Leonard Cohen
What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly. Voltaire
James Lee Burke quote: "Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his..."
Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice. James Lee Burke
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. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possesion of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. Oscar Wilde
Colin Powell quote: "Perpetual optimism is a force leveler"
Perpetual optimism is a force leveler Colin Powell
A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious. Dee Dee Myers
Antonio Gramsci quote: "Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will."
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. Antonio Gramsci
Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do. Paul Graham
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. Fred G. Gosman
To me, what I love about the draft is; first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody. Roger Goodell
As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station. Linda M. Godwin
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. Rudy Giuliani
Paul Fussell quote: "I find nothing more depressing than optimism."
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. Paul Fussell
I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium. Martin Fleischmann

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