Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
Optimism is an expectation that good things are going to be plentiful. The wealthy generally have the sense that life will bring good rather than bad outcomes. That doesn't mean they believe that good things will be omnipresent, but that they will outnumber the not-so-good.
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Optimism is the key.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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