#optimist

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. ↗

— Mark Twain

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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ↗

— Martha Beck

#between #day #developed #every #every day

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#girl #mistakes #optimist #who

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#amazing #back #conversation #dna #doctor

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. ↗

— David Eddings

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I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance. ↗

— Amanda Holden

#bad #balance #gets #good #i

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#i #optimist #optimistic #out #pessimist

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm! ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#optimist #humor

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work. ↗

— Joel Coen

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