Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. - Ted Koppel - Quotesmemo.com

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.

Popular Topics

Enthusiast, Quiet, Willing, America, Guru, Drama, Scholar, Feeling, Poet, Songs, Creative, Glory, Home, Leadership, House, Culture, Loves, Integrity, Poor, Difference, Movie Love, Future, Afternoon, Stories, Journey, New York, Math, Thinking, Art, Stage, Secret, Achievement, Education, Wonder, Girl, Character, Dance, Inspiring, Light, Private Life, Brain, Bear, Gold, I Like You, Beauty, Positive, Possible, Inspire, Fitness, Jesus

Ted Koppel

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Believe, Calculate, Odds, Overcome, Overcoming, Pessimists

Same Author Quotes

They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are what's giving them the material that they need, it's the oxygen that the Trump campaign requires, a poll every three or four days showing him where he is.

Dirty, Giving, Material, Oxygen, Poll

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

Accurately, Difficult, People, Quite, Reality, Thank You

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

American Politics, Like, Nice, Say, Say Anything

I have the necessary lack of tact.

Tact, Necessary, Lack

Going after ISIS, it's beautiful, I like it.

Beautiful, Isis, Like

Similar Quotes

Heather Hemmens

Heather Hemmens

I was never a cheerleader, but one of my very close friends was, and she is the one that taught me to do my first cartwheel. I always thought they were so talented and focused, and now that I've had the honor to walk in their shoes for a moment, my respect for their flexibility, skill, and resilience has increased tremendously.

Cheerleader, Close, Honor, Resilience, Shoes, Skills

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.

Life, Negative, Thinking, Write, Writing

Tara Brach

Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it was about not being a good enough daughter or friend, or my appearance, or whatever. I ended up becoming involved with a spiritual path in the yogic tradition, living in an ashram, doing a very rigorous spiritual practice.

Daughter, Spiritual, Fall, Living, Realized, Monitoring

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

Games, Intense, Power, Stir, Would Be

Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman

Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.

Abyss, Angel, Heart, Mother, Stood, Together