Eksempler på 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.