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Related Angry people are actually not just more optimistic than fearful people, they're optimistic in an abs... DR. JENNIFER LERNER DEYTH BANGER The Commission is still optimistic that a deal can be reached. We have concerns because some member ... AMADEU TARDIO The Commission is still optimistic that a deal can be reached. We have concerns because some member ... AMADEU ALTAFAJ TARDIO JIMMY CARTER Enjoy the challenges you face today, some people have none. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL DEYTH BANGER To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more. LORRIN L. LEE DANIEL KAHNEMAN I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of t... ELEANOR CATTON You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE. LORRIN L. LEE I would think you would expect a lot more than (1,000). They may have 10,000 people out there. LYNN GRAY Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic abou... JACK LAYTON We have lots of things to help people avoid, to distract them from their pain. That's the enemy - th... KAREN STEINBERG While there are still more optimists than pessimists, this is the least optimistic that CFOs have be... JOHN GRAHAM While there are still more optimists than pessimists, this is the least optimistic that CFOs have be... JOHN GRAHAM more optimistic than I have been in the past that a deal is there to be done. COURTNEY PRATT I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and the... BEN MENDELSOHN GARY ZUKAV Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporti... IRA GLASS DAN GILBERT People are telling you they are still somewhat optimistic about the future, but the current environm... JOSEPH LAVORGNA Strength is not something you have, it's something you find. EMMA SMITH We're still very optimistic about our site. We think we have the optimum site in Texas. NEIL MCDONALD Optimism is a wonderful feeling. Optimism supports strength of will, helps overcome failures and pus... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA THERESA MAY JON RONSON I think it is going to be sooner rather than later, so I'm very optimistic about it. Maybe not as op... KURT WARNER PETER SINGER BLAISE PASCAL GIFT GUGU MONA JACK WHITE What we want to see is have people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble ... LAWRENCE LINDSEY [The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who s... JAMES PENNEBAKER These people have found temporary shelter with family and friends, and may have some other alternati... BILL MADDOX I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important! TERRY JONES Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have. LORRIN L. LEE Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha... LORRIN L. LEE CESAR CHAVEZ Changes in Meaning:SUZETTE BOON ANGELINA JOLIE ASHLY LORENZANA We're cautiously optimistic. We think we're going to have a lot of skill on this team, but we have s... AL BAGNOLI DEYTH BANGER HOLLY HUNTER We usually have in the area of 400 people on our waiting list, just for kidneys. We do an average of... KATHY HOLLEMAN JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN JAMES BALDWIN MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ANDREW LANSLEY You don't have people sitting on a jury who are going out and shooting people. But you do have peopl... ATTORNEY DAVE STENGEL SAMUEL BUTLER ANDIE MACDOWELL We're still reasonably optimistic that we can restore Japan to growth but we're going to have to do ... GEORGE HICKTON I think individual libraries who feel very strongly that they want to keep their catalogue pure in t... ALICE KNAPP Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN The fact of the matter is, if you haven’t been in an abusive relationship, you don’t really know... SHAHIDA ARABI MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA SHEPARD FAIREY NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB When people feel happy, they tend to feel confident, optimistic, and energetic and others find them ... SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY There's more and more stuff to watch on television, and it's harder and harder to find it. They have... LARRY MARCUS These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have s... KATHRYN PRESCOTT ANGELINA JOLIE What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble o... LAWRENCE LINDSEY What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble o... LAWRENCE LINDSEY Optimism must be in us for some reason to survive. Some of the best research on optimism is on 'posi... FRED GERHARD RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN People are optimistic but there's still a little bit of caution. They have averted an immediate retu... ERANJAN KULATUNGA BLAISE PASCAL The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. ... ZACK SNYDER We're kind of optimistic actually. It's been a good year. This looks a little more positive than we ... BILL TERRY DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF ALAN MOORE People's jobs are the biggest asset that they have. The net present value of your job is worth m... DAVID MALPASS Some people have a conscience, others temporarily shine theirs (out of shame, or to make an impressi... MARIANA FULGER Some people have strong opinions about women with short hair. They find it very masculine and severe... MORENA BACCARIN This may be because happy people frequently experience positive moods and these positive moods promp... SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY They seem to be more open about finding out what's going on rather than saying they have everything ... ANDREW MAYNARD I think the states have an agreement in concept on all the difficult points. I am more than optimist... PAT MULROY People can have very good taste and still not know how to pull a room together. They can buy pieces,... LAURI WARD People spend more time at work and have more friendships and interactions there than they would have... HENRY SAFFER Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bod... EDGAR D. MITCHELL DOROTHY ALLISON ISRAELMORE AYIVOR JENNIE GARTH SOURCE UNKNOWN SAMUEL BUTLER HENRY ROLLINS These are the people who think, 'Yeah, I know Arizona.' Our goal is to show them there is more to Ar... JACKI MIELER We do have skilled people and they deserve an appropriate wage that reflects their skill level. BOB SIMPSON I can see that inevitably people are going to point fingers. I think what is amusing is that people ... DARREN STAR JAMES A. BALDWIN What we're trying to do here is just to have people who smoke recognize themselves in these ads and ... LENA DIBBLE The anti-immigration activists have been very vocal, very irresponsible and divisive [on this issue]... JENNIFER BOYSKO A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They ha... TERRELL OWENS I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the op... JON ANDERSON LEE MARVIN RUSH LIMBAUGH Be positive.Positive attitude is a result of a balanced life plan, supported by a daily willingness ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
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Now they have a riddle.
It's emotional to see the appreciation and the dedication that these African people have when they l... 
Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are ge... 
Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their goo... 
People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit. 
The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a ... 
There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do a... 
Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people ar... 
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by o... 
Some want more than they need, and others think they need more than they want. That's why we have so... 
The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do.... 
[We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate.]... 
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than the... 
Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what t... 
It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actua... 
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And the... 
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And the... 
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... 
Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we hav... 
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable. 
I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have... 
Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people wo... 
Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propag... 
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what t... 
These people have received aid but they are very far out, and they are very concerned about the wint... 
I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean... 
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other... 
People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have ... 
A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; t... 
People pay for that they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And th... 
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An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it. 
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or a... 
I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased... 
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people ... 
One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the peop... 
I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is ... 
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that ... 
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can... 
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is... 
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapid... 
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Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of t... 
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Only a god can save us. 
Transcendence constitutes selfhood. 
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. 
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