It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism ( or simply Optimism ) by his mentor, Pangloss.

The epithet Bonus, " the Good ," is used with other abstract deities such as Bona Fortuna (" Good Fortune "), Bona Mens (" Good Thinking " or " Sound Mind "), and Bona Spes (" Valid Hope ," perhaps to be translated as " Optimism "), as well as with the mysterious and multivalent Bona Dea, a goddess whose rites were celebrated by women.

Optimism is an outlook on life such that one maintains a view of the world as a positive place.

Optimism is better than despair.

* The Unforbidden is Compulsory ; or, Optimism ( novella ) ( 2004 )

Optimism is a mental attitude or world view that interprets situations and events as being best ( optimized ), meaning that in some way for factors that may not be fully comprehended, the present moment is in an optimum state.

Optimism is one of these concepts and has been shown to explain between 5 – 10 % of the variation in the likelihood of developing some health conditions ( correlation coefficients between. 20 and. 30 ), notably including cardiovascular disease, stroke, depression, and cancer.

Optimism: The Lesson of Ages ( 1860 ) is a Christian mystical vision of the pursuit of happiness from Blood's distinctly American perspective.

His work is characterised by a constant experimentation in form and content from the apparently naturalistic A Whistle In the Dark to the surreal The Morning After Optimism and the spectacularly verbal The Gigli Concert.

Candide's own conclusion on the subject can be summed up in his utterance that " Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Since Ludvik believes she is too serious, he writes on the postcard, " Optimism is the opium of the people!

Optimism bias encourages patients to undertake treatments that have only tiny chances of success, in the erroneous and irrational belief that they will be part of the tiny minority that is successful, rather than part of the vast majority who are not.

Iby Taymiyyah's highly intellectual discourse at explaining " The Wise Purpose of God, Human Agency, and the Problems of Evil & Justice " using God's attributes as a means has been illustrated by Dr. Jon Hoover in his work " Ibn Taymiyyah's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism ".

Their Relations with Self-Efficacy, Optimism, and General Well-Being.

Learned Optimism.

Optimism, pessimism and negative mood regulation expectancies in cancer patients.

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life.

See Optimism.

* Salon. com serials: " The Unforbidden Is Compulsory Or, Optimism ", " The Fishmonger Returns ", and " New Hampshire Is for Lovers " ( 2004 )

Optimism was the hallmark of the new age — an age of grand expectations.

Optimism may also be linked to health.

Optimism: The Lesson of Ages.

Hardwar places the player in the role of a freelance " Moth " pilot in the city of Misplaced Optimism, a space colony located on Saturn's moon, Titan.

" Optimism of the Will ", The Nation, September 19, 2005.

Her newest monograph, Cruel Optimism, was published in October, 2011, by Duke University Press.

( 2005 ), Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy Of Possibility: From Blind To Transformative Optimism, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

Usually these transactions utilize principles of Compensating transactions, Optimism and Isolation Without Locking.

The unity of the church, especially between Jew and Gentile believers, is the keynote of the book.

Each pipe is tuned to a keynote, called the fundamental frequency.

Since the quote is typically used to demonstrate the fallacy of predictions, if Watson did make such a prediction in 1943, then, as Gordon Bell pointed out in his ACM 50 years celebration keynote, it would have held true for some ten years.

* July 12 – Barbara Jordan is the first black person to keynote a political convention.

The problem of integration regarded as the search for a primitive function is the keynote of the book.

The Narconon website reports that the keynote of Narconon is that the “… individual is responsible for his own condition and that anyone can improve his condition if he is given a workable way to do so … man is basically good and it is pain, suffering, and loss that lead him astray .” It positions the program as an approach to rehabilitation without recourse to alternative drugs.

Stark realism is the keynote of the writing and depiction, with no glossing of the sacrifices constantly being made by the sailors.

The keynote event is a horse parade through the downtown of the city, but there is also live entertainment, car shows and a diverse venue of homemade baked goods sold in a farmers market setting.

This is the keynote of his famous work, Geist des römischen Rechts auf den verschiedenen Stufen seiner Entwicklung ( 1852 – 1865 ), which for originality of conception and lucidity of scientific reasoning placed its author in the forefront of modern Roman jurists.

Before delivering a keynote speech, Marko is approached by a film director who inquires whether he would allow Natalija to play a role in the film based on his own memoirs.

More formally, the Liskov substitution principle ( LSP ) is a particular definition of a subtyping relation, called ( strong ) behavioral subtyping, that was initially introduced by Barbara Liskov in a 1987 conference keynote address entitled Data abstraction and hierarchy.

The State Conference is a three day event that begins with a dinner and keynote speaker on Thursday nght, continues with a full day at the Oklahoma State Capitol on Friday followed by an evening of fellowship activities, and ends with a half day at the Capitol and closing banquet on Saturday.

The keynote of their friendship is good-humoured teasing of each other for one another's failings ( e. g. lines 54-5, 86-91, 336-42 ) and the proof of their friendship is the ease with which they work together in difficult situations, largely due to Euelpides ' willingness to concede the initiative and leadership to Pisthetaerus.

" Learn to do good " is the keynote of the prophetic appeal ( Isa.

A frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences, Andreessen is one of only six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the first international conference on the World Wide Web in 1994.

Each year a noted journalist presents a keynote address at the Ann Devroy Memorial Forum, and a fellowship is given to a promising UW-Eau Claire journalism student.

The organizers of the convention may designate one of these speeches as the keynote address, one which above all others is stated to underscore the convention's themes or political goals.

Michael Mansfield QC is a regular lecturer, after dinner speaker and keynote speaker around the world including the UK, Europe, Asia the Middle East and North America, for clients in all industry sectors not just the legal profession.