I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

I'm very hopeful. I am very optimistic about the future.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress.

We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work together, globally, and I'm optimistic that we will.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

I'm pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.