Ethan Slater Quotes

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

Every day I am inspired by what's possible.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

I'm an idealist.

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

I have never been a cynical person.

I think that I am a deeply optimistic person.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

I dwell in possibility.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

It is hazardous to discourage thought, hope or imagination …

I've always been a dreamer.

I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure. I just hope more.

It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

I'm not a total pessimist; I'm excited by the future as well.

My job is to allow people to dream. Make the impossible seem possible.

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

The simple reason I like every idea is that I'm an optimist.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.