Creativity Quote by Michael Chabon

“It never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different — unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

— Howard Zinn

“In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy.”

— David Brin

“the fear of what might happen in the future is almost always worse than the future that eventually arrives.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.

— Mohsin Hamid

“..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...”

— Michel Leiris

“The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination…

— Austin Kleon

“Pessimists can be such bores, and it's lazy to believe the worst.”

— Paul Morley

“Sometimes such strange things happen. The most insignificant occurrence or decision can give way to the most unexpected futures...”

— Gonzalo Guma

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable…

— Theodore Roszak

“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.”

— Anthony Liccione

“A sense of an impending disaster is a warning that if acted upon can be averted. This sense of the future, which is part…

— Laith Doory