Martin Short

My natural state is to be happy. I'm naturally buoyant. I wake up feeling, 'What a great morning!' I've had some tragedy in my life, absolutely, but I don't know one human being who hasn't. You either learn from it and become empowered by it, or you become a victim to it. It's life, after all.

American Actor

Lyall Watson

We share our planet quite naturally with a permanent aeroplankton; a buoyant ecology too soft to hear, too small to see, but heavy with mood and meaning. Imagine being aware of all these airy inclusions - and you can begin to understand how it might feel to be able to smell really well.

South African Scientist

Tony Shalhoub

My mom was funny and nutty. I suppose she had to be to survive raising 10 kids. To cope and keep a cap on things, she kept us buoyant and harmonious. She wouldn't let us express anger, which later on landed me in therapy but also made it easier for me to play laid-back, measured roles.

Ian McElhinney

Derry Girls' just has a sense of knowing exactly who these people are and also a fun memory of how things were, even in spite of all the chaos around them. It's very entertaining and it stays wonderfully buoyant because it focuses on the kids and the families.

Irish Actor

Bob Brown

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

Australian Politician

Sally Schneider

Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

Writer

Orison Swett Marden

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

American Writer

Kwasi Kwarteng

We are often told that capitalism is in crisis, but look around the world and you'll see that it has never been so buoyant.

British Politician

Viola Davis

That's always the biggest surprise when people meet me: how buoyant I am and how fun and light I am.

American Actress

Malcolm McDowell

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

English Actor

While 'buoyant' often relates to water, it can apply to any liquid or gas where something can float.

Not Just Water

'Buoyant' is used in physics to describe why objects float, relating to buoyancy force.

Physics Term

Something that's 'buoyant' often seems light or weightless.

Weight Perception

'Buoyant' describes an uplifting emotional state, as if floating with joy.

Emotional Lift

When someone feels 'buoyant', they're often confident and untroubled.

Confidence Connection

A 'buoyant' mood can be due to a recent success or good news and might be temporary.

Temporary State

In business, 'buoyant' often refers to a market or economy that quickly recovers from downfalls.

Economic Resilience

A 'buoyant' economy or market can reflect optimism about future financial health.

Optimistic Outlook

Describing something as 'buoyant' in business suggests potential for growth and success.

Indicator of Growth

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 somewhere in the ocean in the deep water may be more than one eruption that just happen all the time down there it's a very dynamic kind of geological setting and this heat that drives the mountain ranges that causes the rock to be buoyant also moves

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 The science of surfing begins as soon as you and your board first hit the water. The board’s size and light construction help it displace a lot of water. In turn, a buoyant force equal to the weight of the displaced water pushes up,

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 in Mexico. There are two known natural causes for these buoyant bubbles. Sometimes, new magma from deeper underground brings additional gassy compounds into the mix. But bubbles can also form when magma begins to cool.

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 But the real culprits were two scientific buoyancy and fluid dynamics. Here's how buoyancy works. An object placed in a liquid displaces a certain volume of fluid. The liquid in turn exerts an upward buoyant force

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 and swimming and having an absolute whale of a time there they go when you weigh as much as an elephant being in water makes them quite buoyant so it's the first time in their life that they

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 that grows around them. And the Qasab reed is integral to every aspect of life. It is food for water buffalo, flour for humans and building material for these biodegradable, buoyant islands

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 You are the cargo director on the maiden voyage of the S.S. Buoyant, and you've agreed to transport several tanks containing the last specimens of a critically endangered fish species

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 The wood for the keel is heavy, to keep the boat centered. The woods used for the sides are light and buoyant to help it float. Only an ax is used to shape each part,

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 then no longer kept buoyant by its oil it will sink into the depths below the blue with its reserves of fat

Buoyant

Able to float easily.

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Happy and confident.

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Able to recover quickly from setbacks.

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