Being Quote by Quinta Brunson

I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist.

— Yuval Noah Harari

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say…

— Joan Baez

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

— Bill Maher

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

— Nick Bostrom

I'd rather be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.

— Drake

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

— Anonymous

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a…

— Steven Morrissey

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

— Margaret Atwood

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

— Clay Aiken

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

— Stephen King

It is better to be an optimist (a positive-minded person) because being a pessimist will get you nowhere.

— Melchor Lim