2. About the Presenter
● Dr.Suresh Kumar Murugesan is a passionate Professor, researcher
and Mental Health Practitioner from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
● At present he is heading the department of Psychology, The
American College, Madurai
● He is very keen in learning new research studies in behavioural
Sciences and open to learn.
● His ultimate aim is to make impression in the field of Knowledge
● His area of specializations are Psychomentry, Psychotherapy,
Positive Psychology, Education Psychology, Cognitive Psychology,
Cyber Psychology etc
● WhatsApp +91 975040 6463 email - sureshkumar800@yahoo.com
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4. Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
— Dalai Lama XIV
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5. “Optimism is a
kind of heart
stimulant – the
digitalis of
failure.”
– Elbert Hubbard
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6. “The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in
case you thought optimism was dead.”
Robert Brault
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7. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.”
– Helen Keller
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8. “If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the
astounding stupidity of optimism.”
– Oscar Wilde
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9. “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future
can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
– Noam Chomsky
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10. “Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
– Voltaire
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11. “What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very
important part of leadership.”
– Bob Iger
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12. “Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is
beautiful, including what is ugly.”
– Ambrose Pierce
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13. “Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.”
– Nicholas M. Butler
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14. “Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing
than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.”
– Twyla Tharpe
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15. “Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron
of tanks. It can be contagious and it’s necessary to being a leader.”
– Gen. Rick Hillier
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16. “Optimism is the opium of the people.”
– Milan Kundera
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17. “I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.”
– Dolores O’Riordan
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18. “The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.”
– Brian May
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19. “Sports uplift us. It’s celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.”
– Travis Kalanick
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20. “Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of
tanks. It can be contagious and it’s necessary to being a leader.”
– Sylvester Stallone
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21. “Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle,
combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.”
– Jane McGonigal
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22. “It’s not that optimism solves all of life’s problems; it is just that it can
sometimes make the difference between coping and collapsing.”
– Lucy MacDonald, Learn to Be an Optimist
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23. “Optimism is joyful searching; pessimism is a
prison of fear and a clutching at illusionary safety.”
– Kathleen A. Brehony
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