Optimism Vs Realism Quotes

#1. Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn't set policy ...

James S.A. Corey

#2. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Criss Jami

#3. Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism ... [because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

Price Pritchett

#4. Some people see the liquid and thing half full. Others only see the air and think half empty. Sometimes I get the sense Chatham sees it all, which is kind of terrifying. I don't know if I want him to see me--the real me.

McCall Hoyle

#5. Opportunities in life are meant to be utilized and invested in

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

Terry Eagleton

#7. Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

Wes Fesler

#8. Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.

C. JoyBell C.

#9. In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce a rhytmic farting.

Craig Raine

#10. Amos sipped his coffee. The faraway look on his face reminded me of my dad. "I don't want to scare you."
"Too late.

Rick Riordan

#11. When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

George Raveling

#12. She turned her face to me. 'Can you tell I've been crying?'
For the gazillionth time, no. You look fine.'
Shit. I knew it. I look terrible.'
'Aphrodite! I just said you look fine.'
'Yeah, well, fine is fine for most people. For me it's terrible.

P.C. Cast

#13. Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist - life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for.

NikNak

#14. Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

Ron Suskind

#15. The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Timothy Keller

#16. In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.

T.K. Coleman

#17. Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

Gichin Funakoshi

#18. This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

Vicky Hartzler

#19. 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

#20. Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

Ron Fournier

#21. Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.

T.K. Coleman

#22. Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil ... Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

Richard M. Weaver