Optimist

The optimist looks into a mirror and becomes more optimistic, the pessimist more pessimistic.

Helen is by nature an optimist.

I am by turns an optimist and a pessimist.

I am an optimist by nature.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Despite all his setbacks, he remains an optimist.

Eric is an eternal optimist.

You're an optimist.

I'm an optimist.

Tom is an optimist.

We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future.

People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.;