The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.
We live in the best of all possible worlds
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock.
Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy.
I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism.
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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