“Amos willed himself to be optimistic, because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how to define it -- hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? -- this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“328An optimism which is exclusively built on evolution is always transmuted into pessimism if one ponders a little more deeply.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“Soon the people will decide that they want their land to be a part of today's monstrous world, and once that happens,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on our planet. What pollution is on the outer level is negativity on the inner. It… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around.… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The internet's weird. It's kind of harvesting the negativity. I think negativity has always been out there, but because people are hiding… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You can transcend all negativity when you realize that the only power it has over you is your belief in it. As… — Eileen Caddy Copy Share Image
The fear of failure & the fear of disappointment can really hurt ones personality and ruin his or her life in general.… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Judging people without knowing them is an open-invitation for negativity; and judging those whom you DO know still leaves the door unlocked. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“there was a pessimism in his soul, a darkness in his outlook, that always left her somehow more aware of hard edges… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“There are two words that I believe could be completely eradicated from our vocabulary – “I can’t.” These two words are so… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You can only take so much of people's stupidity & negativity. Sometimes you lose your cool. God knows I work so hard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While an optimistic attitude broadens your horizons to bring positivity and hope, pessimism limits possibilities and fills you with doubt and negativity.” — Lindy Tsang Copy Share Image
A negative thinker makes everything worse, heavier, and harder. A positive thinker makes everything better, lighter, and easier. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive? — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.” — Matthew Flinders Copy Share Image
The pessimist says opportunities are NO WHERE. The optimist says opportunities are NOW HERE. Both see the same words, but read it… — RVM Copy Share Image
Be positive everyday, every hour, every minute, every second cause if you missed a part of your life just because of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness” — samuel johnson Copy Share Image
There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly the negativity of the world can't… — Goi Nasu Copy Share Image
The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain… — Deitrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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