Optimistic Vs Realistic Quotes & Sayings

Anybody who thinks I'm taking this fight for a paycheck doesn't know me. My whole life I've been achieving the impossible. — Bernard Hopkins

The Zappos Company Philosophy We value passion, determination, perseverance, and the sense of urgency. We are inspired because we believe in what we are doing and where we are going. We don't take "no" or "that'll never work" for an answer because if we had, then Zappos would have never started in the first place. Passion and determination are contagious. We believe in having a positive and optimistic (but realistic) attitude about everything we do because we realize that this inspires others to have the same attitude. There is excitement in knowing that everyone you work with has a tremendous impact on a larger dream and vision, and you can see that impact day in and day out. SOURCE: Zappos Company (n.d.). — Debbie P. Silver

I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak. — Frederick Wiseman

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children. — Perry Nodelman

I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework — Gordon Clark

I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly. — Martin Parr

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic? — Ron Fournier

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

But while I'm realistic about our challenges, I'm optimistic about our future. There are a few things, and if we do them, we're going to have the greatest era in our history. And I have detailed what those things are specifically. — Marco Rubio

I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things. — Zhuangzi

Maybe we should all just shut up and read a good book. — Mary Sisney

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control. — John Kessel

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. — Walt Disney Company

That Episcopal day school Marin attended from the age of four until she entered Berkeley had as its aim "the development of a realistic but optimistic attitude," and it was characteristic of Charlotte that whenever the phrase "realistic but optimistic" appeared in a school communique she read it as "realistic and optimistic. — Joan Didion

Amber won't mind if we both dance with her, will you? — Gail McHugh

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake. — Edward Dahlberg