Pessimism Quotes - Page 6

• I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Business, Crazy, Intelligent

  "The Money Man: Super-economist Joseph Stiglitz on how to fix the recession". Interview with Sean O'Grady, www.independent.co.uk. February 9, 2010.

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• Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Perfection, Defects, Humans

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “On Human Nature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

  Paula Nelson

  Money, Acceptance, America

  Paula Nelson (1977). “The Joy of Money: The Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

  Emilio Estevez

  Media, People, Trying

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms" by Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, Ideas, Profound

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• I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

  Norman Cousins

  Despair, Bombs, Next

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• Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

  Lynne Truss

  Hands, Caution, Hand In Hand

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• Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Doe, Cost, Life Is

  "The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (On the Vanity and Suffering of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819.

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• Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving, Reason, Feminine

  Arthur, Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.55, Aegitas

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• As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in pessimism. If you think failure is inevitable, that view will probably become self-fulfilling.

  Denis Hayes

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Business, Optimism, Risk

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• 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

  Tunnels, Light, Next

  Sydney J. Harris (1982). “Pieces of Eight”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Expression

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.29, 谷月社

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• I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Pessimistic, Littles, Ends

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Devil, Bitterness

  Pope Francis' address to The College Of Cardinals, w2.vatican.va. March 15, 2013.

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• I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

  John Oliver

  British

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• My pessimism has never been flabby.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

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• The Democrats have always owned the pessimism. It's just the way it's worked out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Way, Democrat

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Swings, Optimism

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

  Dee Hock

  Success, Too Late, Late

  Dee Hock (2013). “Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition”, p.210, iUniverse

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• Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Memorable, Natural

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Men, Good Man, Alive

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• More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
  I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.

  Woody Allen

  Men, Healthy, Despair

  Side Effects "My Speech to the Graduates" (1980)

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• Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.

  Martin Seligman

  Depression, Achievement, News

  Martin Seligman (2011). “What You Can Change... and What You Can't”, p.17, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.

  Emile Zola

  Fall, Men, Nurse

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