Linda McMahon

Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life.

American Businesswoman

Luther Burbank

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

American Environmentalist

Liu Xiaobo

My dear, with your love I can calmly face my impending trial, having no regrets about the choices I've made and optimistically awaiting tomorrow.

Chinese Critic

Ty Simpkins

It's very important to think optimistically. You've got to think to yourself, 'I'm going to get better every day.

American Actor

Alfred A. Montapert

Live constructively and live optimistically.

American Author

Use 'optimistically' when there's genuine belief that things will turn out well.

Expecting the Best

'Optimistically' is often used before knowing the final outcome of a situation.

Before Outcomes

Using 'optimistically' injects a positive tone into your statement.

Positive Connotation

It points out a tendency to disregard potential or evident negative aspects.

Ignoring Negatives

Can imply the speaker or subject may be criticized for being too hopeful without basis.

Critically Hopeful

'Optimistically' might sometimes make an assessment seem unrealistic.

May Sound Unrealistic

 it turns on all of the learning centers in your brain allowing you to adapt to the world in a different way. We've found there are ways that you can train your brain to be able to become more positive. In just a two-minute span of time done for 21 days in a row, we can actually rewire your brain, allowing your brain to actually work more optimistically and more successfully.

The happy secret to...

 allowing your brain to actually work more optimistically and more successfully we've done these things in research now and every single company that I've worked with getting them to write down three new things that they're grateful for for 21 days in a row three new things each day and at the end of that their brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world not for

 But how do we optimistically lead through it? Are there ways to partner with cities? Are there ways to have education systems, vocational training, etc., for that transition period. It will take a lot longer than I think we all expect, especially that transition period. But it is a world that's going to exist,

Uber's plan to get more...

 core and bring it back to the lab well with our new tools and techniques we can do the science there we can leave the site intact and do and get the science done in the field but ultimately what I want to do is bolt this instrument on the side of a spacecraft like this optimistically we're hoping for a launch

Kevin Hand: Exploring...

 to make these improvements that relies on the fact that we’re optimistically trusting others. We have total strangers that we can collaborate, and that collaboration allows us to make things beyond ourselves that are bigger than just what we can do. That requires trust,

The Future Will Be...

 or that this even provides permanent protection. But what it does mean is that a group of individuals can form a community to actually shape the way high seas are governed, to create a new regime. So I'm looking optimistically at our opportunities

Kristina Gjerde: Making...

 with a lot of love and tears and caring. And it's not a great building, but I approached it optimistically, that we would make a compositional relationship between us that would strengthen both of us. And the plan of this -- it's a concert hall.

Frank Gehry: From 1990,...

 It's the data rate. When you communicate, especially with a phone, you're moving your thumbs very slowly. So you're like moving your two little meat sticks at a rate that’s maybe 10 bits per second, optimistically, 100 bits per second.

Elon Musk: A future...

 that I have to invent my own lexicon for it. And I work a lot in what I call "retrofuturism," which is looking back to see how yesterday viewed tomorrow. And they're always wrong, always hilariously, optimistically wrong.

Bruce McCall: Nostalgia...

 is just so much less exciting to me than embracing a big, juicy, audacious goal. Take exercise, for example. When the coronavirus hit, I optimistically embraced the idea