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If we define optimism broadly as the tendency to maintain a positive outlook, then realistic optimism is the tendency to maintain a positive outlook within the constraints of the available "measurable phenomena situated in the physical and social world" (DeGrandpre, 2000, p. 733). With respect to fuzzy meaning, realistic optimism involves enhancing and focusing on the favorable aspects of our experiences. Examples include being lenient in our evaluation of past events, actively appreciating the positive aspects of our current situation, and routinely emphasizing possible opportunities for the future. With respect to fuzzy knowledge, realistic optimism involves hoping, aspiring, and searching for positive experiences while acknowledging what we do not know and accepting what we cannot know. ~ Sandra L. Schneider
Realistic Optimism quotes by Sandra L. Schneider
When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success is modest) promotes positive affect, reduces self-doubt, and helps to maintain motivation (e.g., McFarland & Ross, 1982) ... Nevertheless, realistic optimism does not include or imply expectations that things will improve on their own. Wishful thinking of this sort typically has no reliable supporting evidence. Instead, the opportunity-seeking component of realistic optimism motivates efforts to improve future performances on the basis of what has been learned from past performances. ~ Sandra L. Schneider
Realistic Optimism quotes by Sandra L. Schneider
The way to get started is to take the first step with dream-powered optimism. ~ Debasish Mridha
Realistic Optimism quotes by Debasish Mridha
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism. ~ Angela Y. Davis
Realistic Optimism quotes by Angela Y. Davis
Optimism is America's birthright ... There is no social problem Americans
dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage,
and marriage alone, we despair. ~ Maggie Gallagher
Realistic Optimism quotes by Maggie Gallagher
There were bad times before, and you are still here... Living, breathing, feeling the wind on your skin. Let everything go and feel it! ~ Adam Scythe
Realistic Optimism quotes by Adam Scythe
Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity. ~ Will Smith
Realistic Optimism quotes by Will Smith
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance. ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Realistic Optimism quotes by Toyotomi Hideyoshi
You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time. ~ Lemar
Realistic Optimism quotes by Lemar
The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed. ~ Philip Littell
Realistic Optimism quotes by Philip Littell
Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer. ~ Francis A. Schaeffer
Realistic Optimism quotes by Francis A. Schaeffer
Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones. ~ Masashi Kishimoto
Realistic Optimism quotes by Masashi Kishimoto
Therapists are never "done" with growth, they are simply people who should be dedicated to learning as much about themselves and others as they possibly can. The best therapists are fully human and engage in the struggles of life. Our own failures help us to remain open to the struggles of others; our personal victories give us the optimism and courage to inspire those struggling with their lives. ~ Louis Cozolino
Realistic Optimism quotes by Louis Cozolino
Every day we make the whole world new ... Or else grow old. ~ John Valentine
Realistic Optimism quotes by John Valentine
Building Your Own Family Is Like A Contractor Without A Labour. ~ Mansah Bi Lartey
Realistic Optimism quotes by Mansah Bi Lartey
If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female. ~ Oscar Wilde
Realistic Optimism quotes by Oscar Wilde
Whenever someone says something that's both realistic and abhorrent, It makes me suspect everyone else is lying about everything else. ~ Chuck Klosterman
Realistic Optimism quotes by Chuck Klosterman
Suicide is a realistic option, I hear myself saying a minute later. Some people take comfort in the realization that they have control over the way their life ends. What they dread most of all is the implementation. The way in which. A train is so violent. Cutting your wrists in the bathtub is so bloody. Hanging is painful - it takes a long time before death comes. Sleeping pills may be vomited up. But there are substances that bring about a painless, easy death. ~ Herman Koch
Realistic Optimism quotes by Herman Koch
You know, you have to start with hope ... you don't get anywhere in this country without hope. So it's a necessity. What Barack says is that people have to understand hope isn't just blind optimism. It isn't passive. It isn't just sitting there waiting for things to get better. Hope is the vision that you have to have. It's the inspiration that moves people into action ... There are more people engaged in this political process in this year than we've seen in my lifetime. And it is all because of hope because people believe in the possibility of something unseen. ~ Michelle Obama
Realistic Optimism quotes by Michelle Obama
Relationships never worked well for me. Guys liked me well enough until they realised just how quirky I really was. The cheeriness, the humming, the giggling, the optimism, and the 'being a morning person' thing – or 'dusk person', in my case – would begin to wear on them.
Eventually, they would get frustrated with me all the time, would try to change me, and then I'd have to punch them in the dick until they vomited. ~ Suzanne Wright
Realistic Optimism quotes by Suzanne Wright
Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic. ~ Tim Ferriss
Realistic Optimism quotes by Tim Ferriss
People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts. ~ Viggo Mortensen
Realistic Optimism quotes by Viggo Mortensen
Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience. ~ Nicholas Proffitt
Realistic Optimism quotes by Nicholas Proffitt
My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape. ~ Marsden Hartley
Realistic Optimism quotes by Marsden Hartley
I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing. ~ Kirsten Dunst
Realistic Optimism quotes by Kirsten Dunst
I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes. ~ John Cassavetes
Realistic Optimism quotes by John Cassavetes
Make enthusiasm a way of life.
Make optimism a way of success.
Make gratitude a way of happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha
Realistic Optimism quotes by Debasish Mridha
Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals. ~ Roy Romer
Realistic Optimism quotes by Roy Romer
PLANS HAVE TO BE REALISTIC; DREAMS DON'T ~ Richard Templar
Realistic Optimism quotes by Richard Templar
Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Realistic Optimism quotes by Richelle E. Goodrich
Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Realistic Optimism quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism. ~ Ron Suskind
Realistic Optimism quotes by Ron Suskind
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ~ Voltaire
Realistic Optimism quotes by Voltaire
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ~ Oscar Wilde
Realistic Optimism quotes by Oscar Wilde
Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. ~ Roy T. Bennett
Realistic Optimism quotes by Roy T. Bennett
Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi is a repetitive genre written by unimaginative hacks who rely on mere mimesis. If they had any self-respect they'd be writing memoir, but they're too lazy to fact-check. Of course I never read Re-Fi. But the kids keep bringing home these garish realistic novels and talking about them, so I know that it's an incredibly narrow genre, completely centered on one species, full of worn-out cliches and predictable situations--the quest for the father, mother-bashing, obsessive male lust, dysfunctional suburban families, etc., etc. All it's good for is being made into mass-market movies. Given its old-fashioned means and limited subject matter, realism is quite incapable of describing the complexity of contemporary experience. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Realistic Optimism quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot be eradicated by the most rigid curriculum, and that various individuals will choose different educational curricula if allowed to do so. ~ Carl Eckart
Realistic Optimism quotes by Carl Eckart
The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimism had led to an ethos of fear, and the other's pessimism had led to a noisy, fractious disdain for Everything-That-Was. One shrank, the other flailed. One toed the line, the other crossed it out. Much of the time they were at loggerheads, and because Willy found it so easy to shock his mother, he rarely wasted an opportunity to provoke an argument. If only she'd the wit to back off a little, he probably wouldn't have been so insistent about making his points. Her antagonism inspired him, pushed him into ever more extreme positions, and by the time he was ready to leave the house and go off to college, he had indelibly cast himself in his chosen role: as malcontent, as rebel, as outlaw poet prowling the gutters of a ruined world. ~ Paul Auster
Realistic Optimism quotes by Paul Auster
There's a point where procrastination turns into resignation that you will never do what you need to do, and I hit that point, like, two hours ago, after opening a Word document in a short-lived fit of optimism. At this point, anything I write will seem like one hundred percent bullshit when I read it over tomorrow morning, so is this even worth it? Signs point to no. ~ Riley Redgate
Realistic Optimism quotes by Riley Redgate
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers. ~ Julia Gillard
Realistic Optimism quotes by Julia Gillard
The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees.
Marcel Proust, translated by Kiyotesong ~ Rob Brezsny
Realistic Optimism quotes by Rob Brezsny
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. ~ Phillips Brooks
Realistic Optimism quotes by Phillips Brooks
We kind of just got more mature and more realistic with what we're doing. We kinda said, "We quit our jobs and we quit college to do this, and we're going to be playing these songs every day just about, y'know, on a stage ... so let's write songs that we're never gonna get sick of playing." Songs that aren't just gonna follow a trend of what's going on right now, y'know? ~ Jordan Buckley
Realistic Optimism quotes by Jordan Buckley
What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh. ~ A.A. Milne
Realistic Optimism quotes by A.A. Milne
Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism that sinks its roots into an awareness of our freedom, and the sure knowledge of the power of grace. It is an optimism that leads us to make demands on ourselves, to struggle to respond at every moment to God's call. ~ Josemaria Escriva
Realistic Optimism quotes by Josemaria Escriva
It's easy to want to be an author. You see it in your mind with sun streaming through windows and a Siamese cat purring on an antique rug and a little pellet stove and somehow the bills are paid and there's wit and self-sufficiency and divine inspiration seeping through walls and pores. And then, in your mind, you skip ahead to a book launch party and more Siamese cats.

When you graduate from wanting to working, you say, "I am going to flesh out this idea and write the whole thing down, and rewrite it, and rewrite it again, and rewrite it unendingly, and I'll have no real assurance of when it'll be good enough, but at some point I'll pitch it to someone who will decide if I'm delusional or not." The optimism and the ego-bruising, unsexy work needed to follow through feels unending. ~ Kate Inglis
Realistic Optimism quotes by Kate Inglis
I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much. ~ Tiffany Reisz
Realistic Optimism quotes by Tiffany Reisz
If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait. ~ Amy Bloom
Realistic Optimism quotes by Amy Bloom
Count the roses, not the thorns. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Realistic Optimism quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
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