There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.
One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.
I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework
I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.
If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.
We can no longer completely avoid anthropogenic climate change. At best, limiting the temperature rise to two degrees is just about possible, according to optimistic estimates. That's why we should spend more time talking about adjusting to the inevitable and not about reducing CO2 emissions. We have to take away people's fear of climate change.
Positive things happen to positive people.
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions. . . this especially applies to what we used to call bad things. . . the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.
I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.
The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.
I will tell you my position now, as somebody who is ardently against [Donald Trump], as the sort of standard-bearer of the Republican Party and as sort of an impostor in the conservative movement, is, frankly, cautiously optimistic.
The predominant quality of successful people is optimism. . . . Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of "patriotism" is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a "patriotic American".
If we keep an optimistic view about the future, we definitely have to look for our place. Not to be redundant. And that means we have to emphasize what makes us unique.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.