I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Dear Optimist, That's Not A Light At The End Of The Tunnel, But A Train! Sincerely, Pessimist — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. — Elmer Bernstein Copy Share Image
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Like anything in life, nothing is guaranteed but I'm certainly hopeful of the positive change that could come from the Black To… — A. J. Odudu Copy Share Image
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
“Our notion of an optimist is a man who, knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Copy Share Image
