Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.
My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. People had such a boundless sense of optimism; They felt they could do anything they wanted to do, and they went out and tried to do it.
Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!
Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.
Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.
It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.
We can all think we're discriminated against, and I'm sure many of us are. But I see a ton of optimism in corporate America around the advancement and retention of women.
