“Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
“Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
“motivation to perform well and pessimistic expectations are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they seem to get along famously.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference. — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
I feel like the bad times have fired me up: you have to turn negativity into positivity. — Tulisa Copy Share Image
It is easier to avoid the effects of others' negativity when we question if an action or attitude is appropriately directed at… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Your thoughts, your words are reflections of who you truly are and who you could become. Be careful what you think of… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
“Don’t cheat people out of loving you, and love them back - right where they stand. And if they turn away, let… — Jenna Brooks Copy Share Image
“Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
“The man in this stage of consciousness thinks of his "I" as a mental thing, having a lower companion, the body. He… — Yogi Ramacharaka Copy Share Image
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
No, I'm not that optimistic, I'm just less pessimistic than most of my peers. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“The good thing about being a pessimist is that I'm either always right, or pleasantly surprised.” — Robin Ayers Copy Share Image
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For you the cup isn't half full or half empty, you're always topping it up.” — Rowena Cory Daniells Copy Share Image
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything. — Brooke Baldwin Copy Share Image
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Keep shining bright, even when others try to dim your light. Their negativity is just a reflection of their own insecurities.” — G.K. Dutta 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
We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy. — Antanas Mockus Copy Share Image
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw.” — Maloy Krishna Dhar Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
