The author, then in the final stage as a candidate for Delta Force, was asked by the unit's foreboding colonel what he thought of the evaluation's Stress Week. He responded that he was waiting for it to begin, reasoning that, used to responsibility for others while leading a platoon, he only had himself to worry about. However hard the trial, he got four meals a day, nobody shot at, him, and the weather was pleasant.
Eric L. HaneyStichwörter: optimism perspective responsibility stress positive-thinking
For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.
Blaise CendrarsStichwörter: optimism happiness action depression movement motion
It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
Joey ComeauStichwörter: optimism pessimism perspective
He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: optimism work anthony-patch
orang2 yg menang di hidup tidak selalu kuat, cepat, pintar.
pada akhirnya yang menang adalah orang yang percaya pada dirinya sendiri.
Stichwörter: life inspirational optimism
Don't live in a world of 'I never should have'. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at the stars.
Mary Alice KruesiStichwörter: life inspirational optimism positive regret
At times what you expect and what happens don’t match.
The faster you accept and adapt to what happened
Stichwörter: life optimism dreams motivation expectations positivity
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.
Brian W. AldissStichwörter: optimism evil mankind science-fiction utopia
Lighten up.” I yawned, pointing across the street to the diner. “If I got upset every time someone beat me, or chased me, or tried to rape me, I’d be crying in my cereal every morning. No one likes a whiner.
Mary CalmesStichwörter: humor optimism rape
I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
Eleventh DoctorStichwörter: optimism dreams hope doctor-who
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