Realist Optimist Pessimist Quotes

#1. A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

Win Butler

#2. Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

Meister Eckhart

#3. Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist
while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

Lori Greiner

#4. 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.

#5. Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#6. The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.

Robert Kirkman

#7. Here's the path to sobriety: Play the Ron Paul drinking game. Watch CNN and take a drink every time someone says his name.

Doug Stanhope

#8. 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

#9. 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 to ever be a pessimist.

Anthony Jeselnik

#10. Criticism comes to those who stand out.

Seth Godin

#11. The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

Andy Stanley

#12. The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#13. The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

Sydney J. Harris

#14. Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because it is depressing, and depressed people live shorter lives. Optimists and believers are happier and healthier in their unreal worlds.

Anna Funder

#15. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

#16. If present rates of improvement continue, however, we would expect the cruising range of electric cars, for example, to intersect with the average range demanded in the mainstream market by 2015, and electric vechicle acceleration to intersect with mainstream demands by 2020.

Clayton M Christensen

#17. In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.

Dana Spiotta