I'm always naturally a bit of a pessimist. And my mom is sorta the opposite. — John Collins Copy Share Image
“Cynicism and defeated weariness have this in common: They both question the active goodness of God on our behalf.” — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“In distributed systems, suspicion, pessimism, and paranoia pay off.” — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Instead of worrying about things that will never happen, learn to bury worry. Kill worry before worry kills you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Life is truly something so beautiful that it should never be taken for granted, some people are filled up with so much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an… — Nicholas Hoult Copy Share Image
“To quote the late John Templeton, “Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The… — David Skarica Copy Share Image
I'd try to explain that it's not really negativity or sadness anymore, it's more just this detached, meaningless fog where you can't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality — Heywood C Broun Copy Share Image
“I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.” — Erskine Childers Copy Share Image
I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower,… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“In popular culture, detached irony and cynicism have ceded ground to an emphasis on sincerity and authenticity. The “too cool to care”… — Jonathan D. Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion,… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Pessimism is easy. We all can do it. We don't need to read books on how to be pessimists. We don't need… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
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