You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity. — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me. — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer. — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Matty carried the attitude of the eternal pessimist; a man who felt badly when he felt good for fear he’d feel worse… — Christina McKenna Copy Share Image
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! — Lori Greiner Copy Share Image
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
Life is full of contradictions:- To a pessimist its a real struggle. To pragmatist its just living. To an optimist is full… — Nghi Lam Copy Share Image
“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“He smacked his lips, tasting the fifth brand, and holding up the glass looked through the amber at the light. "This is… — Rex Stout 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
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists,… — Rowan Williams 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
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
I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone… — Harvey Mackay 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
To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."… — Kenneth Oppel 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
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
I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“What look?', I would ask. That look that I owe you something. That I've wronged you in some way. A pessimist. A… — Weike Wang 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 market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
