Optimism

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.

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I came out of my mom’s stomach thinking I was going to own America.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

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The essence of my optimism is constructive pessimism.

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For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

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Look up and not down;Lend a Hand.

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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 march of events.

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You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. "I cannot" never accomplished anything: "I will try" has wrought wonders.

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Always look on the bright side of life.

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

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Optimism is the opium of the people.

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Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

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Despite the cautions just raised, there is abundant reason to believe that optimism – big, little, and in between – is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

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Optimist" is a word which here refers to a person...who thinks pleasant thoughts about nearly everything. For instance, if an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me if I am right-handed or left-handed", but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!

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Optimism is cowardice.

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Optimism is good for overcoming obstacles that are part of daily life, but over-optimism can blind us to adversities that need addressing.

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This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

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