#opt

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#got #helicopter #i #license #might

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. ↗

— Richard M. DeVos

#few #few things #hope #more #optimism

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#environment #i #optimal #research #type

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources. ↗

— Greg Walden

#budgetary #catastrophic #communities #ecosystems #federal

Technology has to be invented or adopted. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#adopted #invented

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#adopt #considerable #either #else #fads

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun. ↗

— Michael Diamond

#anything #back #because #believed #coming

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#done #great #great change #history #optimists

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#adventure #because #carefree #days #drama

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#convince #described #faithful #forward #give