Optimistic Ponderer Gifts

Puddle

"Of course this'll be a great year. The data, sales projections, customer surveys, and my mom all think so."

"You can all unroll yourselves now. We're heading back up."

"I feel like that I've been given a unique oppurtunity to speak out on issues."

Man has a picture of a rolls on his garage door...the car inside is very different.

'Oh for heaven's sake, you're a cow. Just eat grass and be happy.'

Crowded Ice Fishing

Optimist

One man's obstacle is another man's stepping stone.

Man propelled by love

'Why don't you try seeing it from your point of view?'

"...I don't believe in the past or the future. I don't even believe in right now. Everyone remembers the past differently. Everyone imagines the future differently. Everyone even disagrees about what's happening right now. So who's to say tomorrow what you and I did tonight?"

Six Thinking Hats

Plan 'A', Plan 'B' - "I say we should go with plan 'A', sir."

Protest

"This year I resolve to embrace change."

"May I offer a very different scenario?"

Arthur Schopenhauer

Travellers with a developer: 'I see ski slopes.'

Smiling Cake: Brave yet stupid pastry...smiled all the way to the small intestine

"Things are looking up!"

"Sitting here with you each day at sunset reminds me I have to get a job."

"Look, if I had all the answers, would I be living alone on the top of a mountain?"

"I think I can". (train)

"Using worst case scenario as a baseline, I consider this data quite encouraging."

'Actually, my mom was the first to notice he'd lost that new boyfriend smell!'

Untold Love Stories. The Shadow and Pollyanna. It's no use, Lamont, you know what evil lurks in the hearts of men and I believe there's good in everybody.

'The good news is that from now on I belong to a very rare species. There aren't many personnel managers who create their own pink slip.'

"Definitive." "Compelling." "Persuasive." "Upside down."

'We had no contingency plan for things going right.'

Always expect the best

'And I thought I had a big egg to lay.'

"Well, so much for my lucky hat! I've worn it to five interviews and not ONE callback!"

"Don't you worry about me. I always land on my feet."

"We're having a special today on bright futures."