“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
Colleen Wilcox
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
James Matthew Barrie
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
E. E. Cummings
“Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.”
Nitin Nohria
“Comedy is acting out optimism.”
Robin Williams
“It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!”
Gilda Radner
“I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.”
Voltaire