I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.
The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.
I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.
Among immigrants today, it is increasingly fashionable to reject American exceptionalism in favor of multiculturalism. To pretend that this isn't happening isn't optimism; it's sheer fantasy.
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.
The creative industries, a source of optimism in recent years owing to, among other things, a resurgence on the world stage of British music, have come out foursquare against Brexit.
Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.
