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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.


Jacques Barzun


#always #any #been #cheerful #history

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.


Tom Bodett


#difference #forget #forgets #laugh #laughs

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.


Leonard Cohen


#feel #i #i feel #i think #myself

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.


Will Harvey


#been #better #buried #ever #every

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.


Bill Cosby


#grandma #life #optimist #perspective #pessimist

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices. When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie. Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!


Vera Nazarian


#apple #apples #bobbing #choices #energetic

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.


Lewis Mumford


#future #optimists #past #pessimists #traditionalists

It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself.


Nate Ruess


#being #cool #different #engaging #even

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.


James Buchan


#bear #before #boom #bust #circles

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.


James Lovelock


#even #going #happen #i #i do






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