Mohammad Yunus, the unflappably optimistic founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, a microfinance institution for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, is adamant that business remains unscathed.
The bugaboos in larger versions of this optimistic vision are highly variable flows of material, and decentralized, dilute concentrations of reclaimable stuff.
Worried people are likelier to be vigilant people, alert to a troubling physical symptom or a loss of some faculty that overly optimistic people might dismiss.
Federal Reserve board chairman Ben Bernanke was cautiously optimistic about the economy at the annual meeting of the America economic association in Philadelphia today.
I think that in the egalitarian proposition the more talented people, I think it's very optimistic to think that they would—would still work really hard, even if they knew that part of what they made would be given away.
As we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and we must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for the presence here today.