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«Teaching is the greatest act of optimism»
Author: Colleen Wilcox | About: Optimism, Teachers and teaching | Keywords: optimism
«There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is ''man'' himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.»
Author: Edward Steichen | Keywords: magnificent, optimism, survived
«The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.»
Author: Robert Brault | About: Optimism | Keywords: average, case, eraser, erasers, inch, inches, in case, Just a, just in case, optimism, seven, sevens
«Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.»
Author: Colin Powell | About: Optimism | Keywords: multiplier, optimism, perpetual
«The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to h»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Pastor, Theologian) | About: Optimism | Keywords: abandon, enables, no-account, optimism, resigned, vitality
«There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.»
Author: Stephen Hawking (Physicist) | About: Optimism | Keywords: cautious, grounds, Laws of nature, optimism
«Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Optimism, Pessimism | Keywords: optimism, pessimism, weakness
«The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.»
Author: John Updike | Keywords: enjoys, guarantee, intended, onto, optimism, outer, personified, personify, projected, relation, relation to
«The basis of optimism is sheer terror.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Optimism, Positive thinking | Keywords: basis, optimism, sheer, sheerer, terror
«These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | Keywords: aging, aspect, hence, optimism
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