“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“It’s incredible,” he says, “this moaning pessimism, this knee-jerk, things-are-going-downhill reaction from people living amid luxury and security that their ancestors would… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
Too much of anything one thing is unhealthy. Even love. There must be uncertainties, doubt; unanswered questions. What binds it all together… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
“We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization...In this, our main obligation is to establish arbitrary enclaves of order and… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“A Course in Miracles rightly points out that, whenever you are unhappy, there is the unconscious belief that the unhappiness “buys” you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness” — samuel johnson Copy Share Image
Be positive everyday, every hour, every minute, every second cause if you missed a part of your life just because of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly the negativity of the world can't… — Goi Nasu Copy Share Image
“The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain… — Deitrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Judging people without knowing them is an open-invitation for negativity; and judging those whom you DO know still leaves the door unlocked. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“there was a pessimism in his soul, a darkness in his outlook, that always left her somehow more aware of hard edges… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You can only take so much of people's stupidity & negativity. Sometimes you lose your cool. God knows I work so hard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There are two words that I believe could be completely eradicated from our vocabulary – “I can’t.” These two words are so… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
The pessimist says opportunities are NO WHERE. The optimist says opportunities are NOW HERE. Both see the same words, but read it… — RVM Copy Share Image
“Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.” — Matthew Flinders Copy Share Image
Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive? — Al Franken Copy Share Image
A negative thinker makes everything worse, heavier, and harder. A positive thinker makes everything better, lighter, and easier. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While an optimistic attitude broadens your horizons to bring positivity and hope, pessimism limits possibilities and fills you with doubt and negativity.” — Lindy Tsang Copy Share Image
“I wrote to my son. ‘Be a pessimist,’ I advised Joseph on his first birthday on 21 November. ‘It is the safest,… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
If you identify personally with negativity and think, it will be extremely difficult to detach and let go. Learn to see all… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I don't like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it's a love, a friend, an ex.… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
“So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself… — Jennifer Bosworth Copy Share Image
I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
