Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.” — King Michael of Romania Copy Share Image
I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
I can work with skeptics - cynics are a little bit harder because they already have their mind made up. There's nothing… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication,… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is a towering skyscraper eighty stories high in the suburbs of the soul at the end of a long avenue with… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“He has no doubts, there is nothing you can say to sway him, to give him hope or trust. He is a… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived… — Moby Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Worry is a massive waste of time and energy. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and hinder… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes… — Paula Nelson Copy Share Image
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“As Proverbs 18:21 points out, life and death are in the power of the tongue. If you lend credence to a continual… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
“If division and negitivity is overcoming goodness and if darkness is overtaking the light...don't blame mother nature. She's just basking in her… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
It is crucial to have inspiring leaders who deliver on their promises. Cynicism has run deep, because many people think their vote… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
For me, the more I think about the problems of the world, I feel I have to be positive. I wouldn't like… — Manu Chao Copy Share Image
What angers me it takes one idiot to bring negativity to hundreds, thousands and millions of positive role models. Please be open-minded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to… — Alice Herz-Sommer Copy Share Image
