When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

- Carl Rogers

I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

- David Walton

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

- David Bailey

Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

- Daniel Kahneman

It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

- Charles Osgood

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

- Chaka Fattah

I'm an optimistic person.

- Clayton Christensen

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

- Christopher Walken

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

- Cate Blanchett

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.

- Carol Burnett

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

- Aldous Huxley

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

- Bruce Kent

I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

- Binyavanga Wainaina

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

- Bob Dole

I'm a generally optimistic person.

- Alison Brie

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

- Antonio Banderas

I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.

- Amy Heckerling

At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

- Alex Berenson

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

I have an unreasonably optimistic view of the world.

- Anne Wojcicki