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
“I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“As you think a thought, it goes out into the ethers, where it gathers energy and then returns to you. It parallels… — Dianne Robbins Copy Share Image
One thing that makes a dream impossible for us to achieve is the fear of failure. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
You are a human being, you do react. If you react to negativity, you also react to positivity. — Jaya Bachchan Copy Share Image
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never… — Marisha Pessl 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
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the… — Amos Tversky Copy Share Image
“•Scepticism and pessimism aren’t synonymous. Scepticism calls for pessimism when optimism is excessive. But it also calls for optimism when pessimism is… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Cynics emphasized that true happiness is not found in external advantages such as material luxury, political power, or good health. True… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Logotherapy, keeping in mind the essential transitoriness of human existence, is not pessimistic but rather activistic. To express this point figuratively we… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder,… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
