Michael Bennet Quotes

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

I believe we can solve anything. I believe people working together can lift everybody.

People feel optimistic. Look at the jobs report.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

We're going to be eternally optimistic that the Senate is going to get their work done.

I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in spite of physical ailments, they're upbeat.

I'm pretty, for lack of a better word, happy-go-lucky. I take things very seriously, but I'm very aware of people around me. I like to be part of a group that's working together towards something positive.

Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

I am now more sure than ever that we're going to have a bipartisan bill ... making incredible progress.

People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.

Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.

I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

I'm not a fool and I won't be taken for a ride. I will stand up for my self but at the same time I don't presume the worst and I don't see people coming at me with negativity. Until they do.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected contingencies. The optimal way to deal with this is not to give up in despair, but to move ahead using the best intelligence and resources that we have to overcome adversity.

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.