Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you… — Roselyne Bosch 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
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
All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“In combating cynicism, it helps to know its source. Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustated idealist –… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to… — Michael J. Nelson Copy Share Image
“optimistically – get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning, and are spared… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Creative power has to filter through our beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and habits. The more negative and constricted our beliefs and patterns are,… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“If I am (I)ntroverted, (R)eliable, (R)adiant, (E)soteric, (L)oyal, (E)nlightened, (V)aluable, (A)ffable, (N)urturing (T)ranquilly then YES…I'm I.r.r.e.l.e.v.a.n.t---That's just me, ALWAYS doing my best… — Shanaé Jordan 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
“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
I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
There are so many people who feel sad every morning. Not because something is wrong with them but because of their surroundings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
“As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
What disturbs the mind? Negativity and desire. Tackle these internal causes and the mind remains serene even if a storm rages outside.… — Jaya Row Copy Share Image
I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
