Optimist Quote by Rex Stout Download Open image “[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.” — Rex Stout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Optimist Pessimism Pessimist Pleasant Pleasant surprises Surprise
“Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).” — Claire Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way. — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
“Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day after day,… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments,… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Copy Share Image
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings,… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
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