Pessimistic Quotes · Page 3

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

— Wolfgang Schauble

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

— Marshall Brickman

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

— Elmer Bernstein

“If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.”

— Bryant McGill

No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

— Stuart Hughes

I'm not as pessimistic as what a number of people seem to believe.

— Thomas Piketty

I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset.

— David Lowery

Instead getting confused in the concepts of pessimistic or optimistic, one must be realistic.

— Senoraroy

“I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in…

— Haruki Murakami

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly…

— Adam Savage

You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You…

— Nathan Crowley

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's…

— Trent Reznor

“The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.”

— Lou Andreas-Salomé

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't…

— Seth Godin

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility.…

— Paul Theroux

When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are…

— Criss Jami

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand,…

— Anne Rice

Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you…

— Jay Asher

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings…

— C. Wright Mills

Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or…

— Primo Levi

The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it…

— Bill McKibben

I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's…

— Jackie Chan

“If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism”

— J.M.Coetzee

Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic,

— Benjamin Graham

“Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.”

— Anthony Liccione

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

— Nate Silver

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

— Sergio Leone

I hate being around depressing, pessimistic people...Ugh, stop complaining, smile and get over it.

— Anonymous

“The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.”

— David McRaney

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

— Mark Twain

“Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

“I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.”

— Josh Cathey

It takes a certain amount of courage to not be pessimistic. I'd like to believe there is good in everyone.

— Janhvi Kapoor

“It’s easy to be pessimistic about tomorrow when today seems so bleak.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.

— Peter Schwartz

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

— Martin Seligman