Pessimism Quote by Norman Cousins Download Open image “Pessimism is a waste of time” — Norman Cousins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pessimism Time Waste Waste of time Wasting time
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective. — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose. — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . .… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Only love can vanquish hate, the same way that only light can vanquish darkness. You cant fight negativity with more negativity; you must fight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When life hands you lemons, you squirt them in the eye, than yell that you wanted limes! — Amanda Day Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
