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There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.


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I do not rule out optimism.
JAMES LEACH Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
MARGARET ATWOOD Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power
WILLIAM JAMES Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
WILLIAM JAMES There's a lot of optimism in the sector and not a lot of pessimism.
DAVID LAND Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI When we ask for quality public schools, we seek optimism and opportunity, not pessimism and imprison...
SID DINERSTEIN Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
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PAULA NELSON Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ARNOLD BENNETT Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ENOCH ARNOLD BENNETT Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS For the moment we do not have a reason for optimism, because we have yet to see what the court will ...
DIMITAR TSANCHEV Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.
AMIT KALANTRI The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this...
JAMES BRANCH CABELL I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be...
TAMAR MYERS The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too litt...
MARK TWAIN No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)
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KEN KAM It could go either way at this point. There is some pessimism and some optimism. It's going to be in...
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SHALOM AUSLANDER In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse...
ABEL AGANBEGYAN ...if you live feeling like
Your glass is half empty, well,
It may as well be empty all th...
MATTIE J.T. STEPANEK Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS There is now a case for qualified optimism about the industry's financial performance.
BRIAN PEARCE Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the exp...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER You can spend way too much time talking about things like optimism, pessimism, what your hopes are,
JOE LOCKHART If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between th...
FRANCIS PARKER YOCKEY I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm an...
PATRICIA IRELAND Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broa...
DAVID RAKOFF It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pess...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
PAUL FUSSELL I find nothing more depressing than optimism
PAUL FUSSELL Optimism and Pessimism are two buttons that every human being has inside of them. Whether you decide...
ISAIAH HARDEN We generally just think of optimism and pessimism as just feelings and emotions. But they're the sim...
LARRY DOSSEY Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been acc...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn a...
STEPHEN COLBERT The POSITIVE will always look for what is good in every situation. The SUPERIOR will always look for...
ARJUN ESCABARTE Let me not be found overly optimistic and known a fool or endued with pure pessimism, a jaded mess o...
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, ...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to trea...
SAMUEL BUTLER I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
G.K. CHESTERTON What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Marti...
VOLTAIRE It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy st...
JOEY COMEAU I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human li...
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OSCAR WILDE Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experien...
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BILL LEATHERMAN There are really four 'headlines' for me: honesty, integrity, hard work, and what I call a &...
DYLAN TAYLOR To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see re...
THICH NHAT HANH We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimis...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Comedy is acting out optimism.
ROBIN WILLIAMS The most common cause of low prices is pessimism-some times pervasive, some times specific to a comp...
WARREN BUFFETT Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pe...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I get teased a lot for my optimism.
ROB MCCLURE I think there's reason for optimism,
TREVOR HOFFMAN Make hope a way toward optimism; make optimism a way of life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to trea...
MARCEL PROUST If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Man is a complex being who makes deserts bloom and lakes die
G. B. STERN He who has never hoped can never despair
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Sarcasm driven by compassion is not a curse, but an unpleasant by-product of a blessing.
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ANTONIO GRAMSCI There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled w...
KAYLA KRANTZ (Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that ...
NANCY GIBBS; MICHAEL DUFFY Doubt never brings anything better; Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling...
LOU ANDREAS-SALOMé Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.
OUIDA When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice," Amos liked to say. "Once whe...
MICHAEL LEWIS When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once whe...
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মেহেরাব ইফতি The optimist's hope and the pessimist's despair: reciprocal illusions.
MARTY RUBIN For you the cup isn't half full or half empty, you're always topping it up.
ROWENA CORY DANIELLS Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
IDRIES SHAH Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's...
PAULA NELSON I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON It’s not about optimism, pessimism or realism. It’s not about thinking nothing bad will ever hap...
BROWNELL LANDRUM Automation does not make optimism obsolete.
GEORGE KEITH FUNSTON I was pleased with what I saw. We're not out of the woods yet, but it certainly looked, acted and fe...
JEFF PORTER Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
ROBERT HEWISON It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for e...
DAVID SOUTER I trust deeply that my mild character and optimism will be a stronger weapon than blows.
DONALD TUSK Optimism may not always deliver the results I want, but ill take my chances at it.
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ Optimism is a wonderful feeling. Optimism supports strength of will, helps overcome failures and pus...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDE The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism...
ROBERT BRAULT I have very little optimism that the quality of the veteran teaching force is going to improve.
KATE WALSH Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.
CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the...
CRISS JAMI The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimi...
PAUL AUSTER The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
PAT CONROY Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality
OLIVER PELL We're full of optimism, but we're not cocky. We have to keep our focus.
KAITY STREVER Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical deve...
JAMES GUNN Optimism skipped out on the rent a while back, but the cynic in the penthouse won't leave until led ...
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