“Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 162 of 204
“The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit.”
“Yeah, I look at the box office as an indication as how many lives that you've touched, so my hope is touch as many lives as possible.”
“I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.”
“What comes deep comes true.”
“Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions”
“Don't obsess over risks. Keep your focus on positive outcomes.”
“Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.”
“You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year 1950. That was the year when the government held free and fair election, was defeated and simply withdrew from power and handed it over to the opposition, without precedent in Middle Eastern history. That was a really remarkable time and it was a fascinating and rewarding experience to be there at that time.”
“Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.”
“The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies - drinking water supplies and agricultural water supplies. We have these record storms, drought, floods, fires, three deaths (ph) in the American West, climate refugees beginning now, expected to rise to the hundreds of millions unless we take action.”
“Take it from me: Elections matter.”
“Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”
“Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.”
“I'm going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.”
“Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.”
“As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet”
“My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.”
“I have felt for a long time that the pathway to solving the climate crisis is through the building of a massive grassroots army of men and women who will go out there and win the conversation on climate, and persuade businesses, and universities, and towns to switch to renewable energy and to reduce emissions. And the big change from ten years ago is that people are way more receptive, not only to the message that we have to act, not only to the message that now we can act, we have the solutions now - that's the biggest change - but also willing to make a commitment that we will act.”
“I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.”