Brad Feld Quotes

My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

There are not too many times when a movie's not cynical, you know what I mean?

History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I'm not cynical.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can't let myself go to that place. It's just too easy, and it's just too defeatist.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.