“Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.”

“There is so much natural bloom (juvenile oyster stock) in the water, ... We try to optimize the culture methods.”

“There's a general feeling of optimism over the fall in interest rates and that's helping to boost the value of shares.”

“This is the first report ever to show that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition may delay primary aging in humans.”

“The most important thing is to work with the athlete for him to discover how to optimize the various positions relative to the skiing,”

“Optimism seems actually to change the nervous system and boost the immune response, just as being gloomy depresses it.”

“For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise-whatever appeals to you.”

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

“We are concerned that some countries in our hemisphere are making decisions that are not going to optimize the development of energy resources.”

Things will happen when they should. When an event is forced, its outcome would be less than optimal.