I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.
I'm getting optimistic. I think, as I talk to people around the country - they seem to get it. They want a return to those things that made America different and great.
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.
I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
Everyday take one optimistic calculated risk to find out how far you can go.
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.
[ .] But [ ] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [ ] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.
It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.
