“It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion,… — Antonio Brown Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Audiences are embracing more and more unique material. I think they can sense the cynicism when people are just cranking something out… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
“No one wants to believe that life is random. My dad says he doesn’t know where my cynicism comes from, but I’m… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you… — Roselyne Bosch Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not good for the soul." "I sold my soul years ago." "To whom?" "The bitch goddess Success. She cut town… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“Amos was not merely an optimist. He willed himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. "When you… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to think, in just one single moment every thing can start to sink. In just a blink of an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the problem is that Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings never die: they’re buried alive and come… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I always hear people say I give the same answers or I don’t give you much. No, I just don’t give you… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
You can't be positive to everybody. A lot of people want to focus on flaws and negativity, especially on the Internet because… — Jackie Warner Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day,… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The negativity of otherness or foreignness is de-interiorized and transformed into the positivity of communicable and consumable difference: ‘diversity’.” — Byung-Chul Han Copy Share Image
Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism. We are… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
There are so many people who feel sad every morning. Not because something is wrong with them but because of their surroundings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
What disturbs the mind? Negativity and desire. Tackle these internal causes and the mind remains serene even if a storm rages outside.… — Jaya Row Copy Share Image
...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
