It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to… — Francis Fukuyama 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
Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury… — Yoko Ono 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
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
It would be a shame to not fully enjoy the good and postive in life because you're too worried that it may… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I… — John Grant Copy Share Image
If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“There is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Dad gave me two pieces of advice. One was, "No matter how good you think you are, there are people better than… — John Ritter Copy Share Image
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Winston Churchill once quipped, “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” He went… — William Ury Copy Share Image
I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because… — Maggie Tabberer Copy Share Image
I am a very optimistic person. I don't know if it is because I've come up right from the bottom, but I… — David Villa Copy Share Image
