Robert Wright on optimism

So there's the optimism.

The Realism of Global Optimism

This fills our hearts with optimism.

Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism

Optimism is merely a lack of information.

Instead, there was a litany of astonishing optimism.

But there's also a wonderful case for optimism.

Perhaps we should say the same thing about optimism.

But now let's look at the case for optimism.

Certainly, nothing can give you more optimism than that.

Optimism is sometimes characterized as a belief, an intellectual posture.

And I therefore believe that optimism is what drives architecture forward.

But optimism foundered over the course of 2013, and frustration soared.

There is room for optimism, but much hard work lies ahead.

There was currently a sense of cautious optimism on the ground.

Secondly, we need to aim off of the optimism of the generals.

All in all, there is room for optimism, but we must be realistic.

Recently, Obama has introduced optimism at a sort of time of global financial crisis.

I leave here today with a profound sense of optimism for the days ahead.

In fact if you look at world history you can see some reasons for optimism.

Those elections heralded a new dawn of optimism, and inspired confidence in our democratic transition.

Optimism is like the lamp of hope. Pessimism or negativity is like a drug of sorrow.

I welcomed the new momentum with cautious optimism, aware there would likely be setbacks and delays.

So anyway, today we'll talk about architecture a little bit, within the subject of creation and optimism.

And if you put creation and optimism together, you've got two choices that you can talk about.

Despite the doubts and the difficult challenges ahead, the hope and optimism of the past months remain.

The latest developments in the Middle East allow us to maintain a certain level of reserved optimism.

So the key question now is how the world s leaders will respond. There are grounds for cautious optimism.

But instead a relationship that can promote respect and hope and this optimism that together we can move forward.

There is a tough road ahead if we are to turn optimism into reality. I see three key milestones.

We welcome with particular optimism the message delivered to the Council by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti.

Another cause for optimism is the promise of the reform of the management and budget of the United Nations.

And I think, as you'll see, there's reasons for optimism, because I believe that the best is yet to come.

The independent expert perceived some calm and optimism to resolving the Sool and Sanaag border conflict between Somaliland and Puntland .

He came away with feelings of cautious hope and optimism, but also with the sense that setbacks and delays are inevitable.

In those debates, Argentina and Honduras, which were members of the Council at the time, were filled with optimism and hope.

Today we begin the work of the 2005 session at a time when the international circumstances offer little ground for optimism.

Argentina and Brazil welcome those auspicious and positive developments, which allow us to entertain a degree of optimism about future prospects.

Moreover, an early decision on reform of the Security Council will stimulate momentum and optimism in our preparations for the 2005 summit.

In a way, growing open unemployment during the early 1990s was consistent with the prevailing optimism arising from steady rapid economic growth.

The broad sentiment that was shared in the round table was a sense of optimism for the future of the United Nations.

The opportunity we're going to look to is a genuine basis for optimism about the bottom billion, and that is the commodity booms.

There were grounds for optimism, but it was necessary to continue to take active collective measures to resolve the many problems that remained.

We have the responsibility and duty to develop a dialogue that can once again bring hope and optimism based on mutual understanding and respect.