Trying to prove yourself to cynics is an absolute waste of your time. Making time with people who care about you is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear;… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“Now, it’s always easier to do something negative than it is to do something positive. That’s because negativity is driven by instinct.… — Eric Pepin Copy Share Image
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
“His cynicism - a veteran's cynicism - was a thing that disturbed him all the time. It seemed to him after the… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“As a result, we are wired for a “negativity bias”—a tendency to react to negative stimuli more intensely than positive experiences. This… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
“Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists… — David Foster Wallace 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
“And truthfully, when microbiologists talk amongst ourselves, off the record after a few glasses of wine, the optimists admit their optimism is… — Sean Chercover Copy Share Image
“Although most people never overcome the habit of berating the world for their difficulties, those who are too weak to make a… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
It is crucial to have inspiring leaders who deliver on their promises. Cynicism has run deep, because many people think their vote… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
For me, the more I think about the problems of the world, I feel I have to be positive. I wouldn't like… — Manu Chao Copy Share Image
What angers me it takes one idiot to bring negativity to hundreds, thousands and millions of positive role models. Please be open-minded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to… — Alice Herz-Sommer Copy Share Image
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
“As Proverbs 18:21 points out, life and death are in the power of the tongue. If you lend credence to a continual… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
“shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If division and negitivity is overcoming goodness and if darkness is overtaking the light...don't blame mother nature. She's just basking in her… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We must push all negativity from our minds thru positive thinking and knowing that there is a higher power that will see… — Wanda Samples Copy Share Image
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist.… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not a belief that things will get worse, either for the individual or the species—it is more profoundly a rejection… — Jacob Graham Copy Share Image
