Top 100 Quotes About Pessimistic
#2. When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Carl Rogers
#3. I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
Elmer Bernstein
#4. Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#5. Food always sounds optimistic when you have it and pessimistic when you don't.
Boris Zubry
#6. Don't be pessimistic
Because, today, the sun hasn't shone
It probably won't next year
And you'll then be 61
John Walter Bratton
#7. A protest against reality, either conscious or unconscious, active or passive, optimistic or pessimistic, always forms part of a really creative piece of work.
Trotsky
#8. People sometimes find Buddhism pessimistic, saying there is too much talk about death. It's essential to understand that Buddhists don't contemplate death because they are morbid or depressed; they focus on death, mortality, and human frailty as a means of better understanding and appreciating life.
Lama Surya Das
#9. I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'
Emmet Gowin
#11. I'm quite pessimistic about climate change. This is an urgent problem, and much of the world is only now waking up to the easiest part of solving - the realization that anthropogenic global warming is real.
Philip Kitcher
#12. When you are nothing but pessimistic you are the enabling force of impossibility.
Bryant McGill
#13. Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.
Paul Pearsall
#14. A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic; reformism is basically optimistic.
Gough Whitlam
#15. We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.
Elie Wiesel
#16. Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).
Claire
#17. I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
Henry Rollins
#18. The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.
Ivan Krastev
#19. I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness
since I am always so bowled over by it
and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
Dawn Powell
#20. There are enough negative forces in this world - don't let the pessimistic voice that lives inside you get away with that stuff, too. That voice is NOT a good roommate.
Felicia Day
#21. Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all but indistinguishable from clairvoyance.
Michael Chabon
#23. Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
Linus Pauling
#24. Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people ... What [Africa] needs, the West cannot give. ... what Africans need is personal liberty ... [and] guarantees of private property rights and rule of law.
Walter E. Williams
#25. My trouble is that my intelligence is materialistic, agnostic, pessimistic and solitary, while my heart is incurably tender, romantic, loving and gregarious.
T.H. White
#26. I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
Adam Savage
#27. Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.
Shmuley Boteach
#28. Always be pessimistic in your hopes with a monster. Always believe you will fail. Because if you feel a tinge of optimism, they will see it and stab you the same moment you thought you won." "I
Cameron Jace
#30. The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver
#31. Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
Eugene Ionesco
#32. The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.
David McRaney
#33. Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
Jim Valvano
#34. Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#35. Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.
Bernie Sanders
#36. Having a rather pessimistic outlook on life makes for the best philosophical discussions; distress is the only real reason to question something; comfort often leads to the inability to change.
Moryah DeMott
#37. My experience of the past several years does not lend itself to the belief that good can or will defeat evil. This is not a pessimistic view, but simply an observation of facts as I have experienced them.
Scott Frost
#38. To some extent this area was foreshadowed by pioneering humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, who wrote about the self-actualized or fulfilled person, and Carl Rogers, who once noted that he was pessimistic about the world, but optimistic about people.
Tom Butler-Bowdon
#39. I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.
Henry Kaufman
#40. Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.
Seth Godin
#41. When your mind is preoccupied with negative, pessimistic and depressing thoughts, you create a negative energy that goes out into your surroundings and thus creates more negativity and failures.
Anne Seguin
#42. American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all ... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.
Max Irons
#43. the most fruitful time to transform pessimistic children into optimistic ones was "before puberty, but late enough in childhood so that they are metacognitive
Paul Tough
#44. We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.
Richard Dawkins
#45. Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
Bo Bennett
#46. Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.
Wolfgang Schauble
#47. There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
David Rakoff
#48. You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.
Rhonda Byrne
#49. Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side.
Peter Cundill
#50. The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
Orson F. Whitney
#52. See here, son, I am not a pessimistic man. I am just plain optimistic that the worst will prevail. That there is Sam's law, son." John
S.E. Swapp
#53. The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.
Christina Romer
#54. I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.
Milan Kundera
#55. These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
Bell Hooks
#56. I don't feel like promising big things to my fans. I'm not thinking about victory at all. I'll do my best to get on the podium at least, although I must admit I feel fairly pessimistic.
Michael Schumacher
#57. When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.
Naomi Wolf
#58. Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.
Albert Vigoleis Thelen
#59. What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.
Matt Taibbi
#60. The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.
Armond White
#61. I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.
Jesse Eisenberg
#62. It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.
John Vane
#63. The prescription for perplexed people who are tempted to be pessimistic is to rejoice, do good, and recognize that our ability to work, eat, and drink is the gift of God.
J. Grant Howard
#64. If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism
J.M. Coetzee
#65. If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.
David Suzuki
#66. When you get Richard Dawkins yapping menopausally at some poor hamstrung old archbishop, while we dismantle our environment due to the materialistic, pessimistic principles that the atheistic tyranny of the day is tacitly sponsoring, it is time to look for a new story.
Russell Brand
#67. I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.
Norman Reedus
#68. It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.
Mitt Romney
#69. The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#70. Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change.
Martin E.P. Seligman
#71. But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
Timothy Ferriss
#72. Because pessimism needs to counter that argument in order to be at all persuasive, a recurring theme in pessimistic theories throughout history has been that an exceptionally dangerous moment is imminent.
David Deutsch
#73. Pessimistic thoughts will only yield trees unwilling to bear edible fruit. Optimistic thinking will always feed those who are willing to sit at your table".
Michaelson Williams
#74. I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with
Kurt Vonnegut
#75. There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
Cyril Connolly
#76. While I may be pessimistic about parts of the business that support journalism, I'm optimistic about the robust survival of journalism in the long run.
George Brock
#77. I find it's best to remain pessimistic. At least then there's less of a blow when fate fucks you over.
Bex-chan
#78. If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
Albert Camus
#79. An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner.
Alberto Villoldo
#80. To be Russian was to be pessimistic; to be Soviet was to be optimistic.
Julian Barnes
#82. Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.
Dane Cook
#83. Do you ever think you're being an idealist? Do you ever wonder if you're holding out for something that doesn't exist? I'm not being pessimistic, and although I'd like to believe that a boom or we or us exists, I'm not sure I do anymore. Maybe I've been holding out for something that's unrealistic.
Karyn Bosnak
#84. I know it sounds a little pessimistic, but it's true. You'll never be done preparing, and you'll never be ready. None of us will.
Creek Stewart
#85. The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.
John Kessel
#86. Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
Nathan Lane
#87. I've always been pessimistic about China. I can't see China going on without economic or social issues.
Ronnie Chan
#88. If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
John Maynard Keynes
#89. Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
H.R. Giger
#90. Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
Jane McGonigal
#91. I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.
Paul Theroux
#92. As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the long view approach. It seems like we're stuck in a tragedy of the commons where everyone is trying to contribute as little as possible to get out of this situation.
Frans De Waal
#93. People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.
Michael Robotham
#94. An older generation, chastened by one depression, is afraid to be optimistic; and a younger generation, accustomed to security, is inexperienced at being pessimistic.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#95. You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.
Nathan Crowley
#96. The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.
Prince William
#97. I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
David Hockney
#98. A combination of unrealistic goals, unnecessarily pessimistic expectations, and the wrong incentives for teachers contributes to ensure that education systems in developing countries fail their two main tasks: giving everyone a sound basic set of skills, and identifying talent.
Abhijit V. Banerjee
#99. If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
Abraham Maslow
#100. I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.
Rebecca McNutt
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