Dr Rosling claims to be neither an optimist nor a pessimist but a “possibilist”.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill.
"I was an optimist then, and it worked out that way," van den Heever continues. He gestures toward his garden blooming with early fall roses.
I am enough of an optimist, and I have enough faith in human nature, to believe that people will listen to reason if they are convinced that it is reason.
First, you need to be an optimist.
These are words that my mother, ever the optimist, lives by.
I'm an optimist. At some point we may have something that actually nips a cold in the bud.
Sir Winston Churchill states' a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. 'What do you see?
But I am an optimist.
Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.
Ever the optimist, architect Barber is exploring the possibility of transferring his skills to a new field.
I'm sure you've experienced that when optimists and realists discuss a project, there is often a clash of perspectives. The optimist is a visionary and focuses on the end goal.
So how do executives develop into a calm problem solver and realistic optimist?
An optimist would point out that women took up smoking later than men. It was not until after the second world war that they started puffing at anything like the male rate.
Which are you - an optimist or a realist?
An optimist might wonder if Europe is about to embrace structural reform by accident: after allowing public sectors to swell, the need for swift cuts is pushing them to slash the costs of the state.
Yet not even the most dogged optimist could say that British family life has been radiantly transformed.
Only a wild optimist would believe that the worst is over in America.
Maybe you 're a born optimist, so you tend to discount the risks or signs of bad news on the horizon.
Be neither a pessimist nor an optimist, but a leader.
He is a natural optimist but sounded unusually low.
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