Too rosy.

JK Both.

And from what I heard from our new president,

OK, think of this as extreme self motivation.

In the margin, you wrote the words, too rosy, followed by a question mark.

I'm not that optimistic.

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

I think Tom is optimistic.

Certainly, nothing can give you more optimism than that.

My first year's revenue should be 300 million.

(Laughter)

Always the optimist...

Hey, don't forget about plagues! (Laughter)

You don't sound too optimistic.

And now 4,000 churches have joined the environmental movement.

Let's call this scenario one, which is kind of the best scenario.

Come on. Let's keep a little optimism here.

Here's how it went.

You must become the change you wish to see in the world.

It's just so optimistic of you, Harry.

In other words, we want the h to never overestimate the distance to the goal.

You're an optimist, sir. See, I had you figured for a grouch.

These girls make me feel optimistic about the future of my country.

That's reason enough to be optimistic.

They play it in the rec room.

(Laughter) (Laughter)

There are nine billion humans coming our way.

The meeting ended on an optimistic note.

(Laughter)

So what we would really like to do, is we would like to protect ourselves from the dangers of optimism, but at the same time remain hopeful, benefiting from the many fruits of optimism.

And at this point we stopped and we asked ourselves, would we want to shatter the optimism illusion into tiny little bits?

That's next to impossible.

My name is Jonathan Zittrain, and in my recent work I've been a bit of a pessimist.

I'm going to value your business at

Red drew me into this little composition, optimistic to me in the sense that maybe the public service's mailbox, door service, plumbing.

If you had based your prediction, your forecast on 1900 to 1929 you'd have predicted something like this.

And be at the same time with the feeling. See what happens. What are you afraid of?

While some of them respond in cold and measured optimism, most religious communities have considered recent events to be apocalyptic.

We overestimate our longevity, our career prospects.

logical, universal, factual, scientific.

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And here's the thing it wasn't doing a very good job.