Pessimistic Quotes - Page 3

• Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

  Mark Twain

  Pessimist, Optimist

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.142, Chartwell

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• If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data.  If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven’t got a heart.

  Paul Hawken

  Heart, Optimistic, Data

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.12, Penguin

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• Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't think I shall succeed in it.' Thus they hinder themselves in their path. Man does not know that every thought makes an impression on the consciousness and on the rhythm with which the consciousness is working. According to that rhythm that reflection will come true and happen; and a man proves to be his own enemy by his ignorance of these things.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Ignorance, Reflection, Men

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• The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

  Joanna Macy

  Healing, Optimistic, Our World

  "Joanna Macy: A Wild Love for the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 11, 2016.

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• That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mistake, Simple, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

  Stuart Hughes

  Issues, Proportion

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• When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

  Marshall Brickman

  Saving Up, Miracle, Wonder

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• The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.

  Julie Mehretu

  Hopeful, Political, Historical

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• The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Optimistic, Play

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• I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

  Bill Gates

  Powerful, Believe, People

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• On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

  Helen Caldicott

  Future, Optimistic, Thinking

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• 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

  Attitude, Team, Optimist

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• 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

  Attitude, Sides, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Optimistic, Risk, Luck

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• The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Self, People, Research

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.99, Penguin

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• 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

  Uplifting, Dream, Optimism

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• If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

  Paul Hawken

  Focus, Trying, Corruption

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• 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

  Photography, Here I Am, Half

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• 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

  Optimistic, Destiny, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Reality, People, Goal

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• 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

  Teenage, Dark, Past

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• In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

  Emilio Estevez

  Climate, World, Currents

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• The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Philosophy, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

  Regina Doman

  School, Boys, Males

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• 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

  Country, Women, Believe

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