Optimism Quote by William T. Vollmann Download Open image ““Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.”” — William T. Vollmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Optimism Pessimism
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Optimism Think positive , even when you are negative about, ultimately you will be positive. (Anonymous).” — Hasham Copy Share Image
“I suspect that self-deception is similar to its cousins, overconfidence and optimism, and as with these other biases, it has both benefits and disadvantages.… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Self-confident people tend to be optimistic thinkers and focus on the positives.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality — Oliver Pell Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Optimism is the tendency to believe, expect or hope that things will turn out well. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“A treble clef, for example, resembles a Muscovite or Leningrader in a bulky hooded parka. A bass clef bends as simply and painfully as… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“The shortest man, codenamed RIMSKY, said to me that freedom means understanding our place within the laws of history; we are more free when… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a… — William T. Vollmann 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
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