Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.
I’ve produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.
I think there’s a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it’s always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.
I know I sound overly optimistic, but you know me, I’ve always been an optimistic guy.
Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.
I’ve always been pretty vocal to my teammates. I’m really positive and optimistic. Positive enforcement – I feel like throwing that energy into the air is big.
I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect and want to have whatever future it’s leading to happen.
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
In the room, when I’m playing SpongeBob, I’m optimistic and I’m happy, and I smile in the face of those who are upset in order to make them happier. You know, there’s this overwhelming optimism. And I’ve been lucky enough to have that become a part of my life. I like to think that it’s influenced me.
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.
I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can’t possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
In high school, I actually thought I was going to have to learn Japanese to work in technology. My big feeling was I just missed it, I missed the whole thing. It had happened in the ’80s, and I got here too late. But then, I’m maybe the most optimistic person I know. I mean, I’m incredibly optimistic.
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic?
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
I think, when I wrote ‘Children of Jihad,’ I wrote it with a very optimistic view of what technology can do. Today I maintain that optimistic view, but I’m also aware of the challenges we have. So I would say I’m not a techno-utopian, but I’m a techno-pragmatist.
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I’ve developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.
I’m kind of a morbid person. I’m very optimistic, but I also feel like I’m going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I’m here, and then I’m not.
I’m so optimistic, I’d go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that’s very determinedly optimistic.
I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I’m very optimistic about the future.
People often ask why I remain so optimistic, even in the face of the complex challenges we are facing in the Jewish world, in Israel and beyond. It’s because I am so impressed and inspired by the young people I meet.
I would say I’m cautiously optimistic.
I don’t read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I’m like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.
I’m often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my ‘Neanderthal Parallax’ and ‘WWW’ trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that’s not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.
I’m optimistic about the future.
Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we’re dead.
Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That’s where I’m very optimistic.
I’m optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.
One mistake, your winning streak is over and you’ve got to start over again. But you have to be optimistic in life, and I find that it’s also beautiful, because if things are too predictable, that sucks, too, right?
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
I’ve always been optimistic – I always expect the sun to come out.
I love the optimistic American style that Gap celebrates and the simplicity of the basic white T-shirt that allows you to be yourself.
I’m an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.
No matter what, I’ve always been an optimistic person.
Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969.
I was a happy-go-lucky gothic girl who had an optimistic spirit cos I was suffering a lot at home.
Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment – which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.
I’m a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think ‘The Waterhole’ is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.
Particularly at the moment, it’s an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.
America has taken small baby steps of progress towards having more inclusion and diversity in Hollywood. It’s optimistic.
On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I’d supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.
It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.
In the past 20 years scientists from very diverse disciplines – anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, psychologists – have all moved to a much more hopeful, optimistic view of human nature.
We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
My songs are not pretty. They’re what I call optimistic realism.
Whether I’m speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don’t find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I’m still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I’m not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.
The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic.
I’m optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage – no matter the attitude of Beijing.
‘Neon Future’ is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It’s embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way.
We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.
When you’re following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way – it’s a really tough time, but it’s also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?
I actually think that I’m a rather optimistic and happy person; it’s just that I’m not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.
I’m very optimistic about the future.
From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk – across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it’s not John McDonnell’s bitter socialist hooch. It’s a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world – free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.
