"People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change."

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Source : Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.147, Bantam

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“I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.”

Source : "Kevin Conroy Gets Vocal in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 24, 2009.
“I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.”

Source : "What Was Lucy Hale Like When She Was 17?". www.seventeen.com. January 22, 2013.
“When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.”
“To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.”
“Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography.”

Source : Frederick H. Evans, Anne Hammond (1992). “Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography”
“Style is what one creates....glamou r is a state of mind.”
“L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.”
“Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.”

Source : Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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