Optimism Quote by Lewis Mumford Download Open image “I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.” — Lewis Mumford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Optimism Optimist Pessimism Pessimist Possibility Probability
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again. — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
The late 1990s were really a moment of still tremendous hope and optimism about the relationship between Russia and the United States. — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hope is not mere optimism; rather, it is moving forward in anticipation of redemption in spite of the improbability of rescue.” — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.” — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
