Contoh optimist

• The story is told that there are two personalities among psychologists, optimists and pessimists, who see the glass as half full or half empty, respectively.

• Not much comfort here for the optimists one would have thought, nor is there much convincing counter-scholarship saying anything different.

• Among the authors are both optimists and pessimists.

• Some people are optimists, whereas others are pessimists.

• At least, that is what this optimist thinks!

• I am not (she said) an optimist but a meliorist.

• The optimists might argue that the invention has now been made.

• Although the above remarks may appeal to pessimists, this volume will offer further hope to optimists.

• The classical utilitarians are often thought of as optimists who regarded everything as malleable or plastic in the name of human progress.

• But at the moment such optimists are distinctly unwelcome among environmentalists.

• But such progress has been remarkable in the last two centuries and the optimist might hope that it could continue indefinitely.

• As this review has attempted to show, when looked at closely, even optimists did not hold out much hope for tsarism as it existed.

• Of course, a civilization of optimists might believe that nothing could possibly go wrong with their probes.

• The optimist may argue that pressure is building up behind the dam, and that at some point there will be radical change.

• The optimist in the debate suggested the compounding effect of geometric technological progress is daunting in its effects.