Pessimistic Quotes - Page 4

• Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can lead to poor decisions and invites people to take advantage of you. Instead, be a rational optimist who takes the good with the bad, in hopes of the good ultimately outweighing the bad, and with the understanding that being pessimistic about everything accomplishes nothing. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best - the former makes you sensible, and the latter makes you an optimist.

  Dale Carnegie

  Optimistic, Poor Decisions, Accomplish Nothing

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• I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

  Hans Hofmann

  Attitude, Healing, Optimism

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 119, 1962.

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• Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Healing, Optimism

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2015

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• I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Optimistic, Thinking, Invention

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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

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• 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

  God, Atheism, Disappointing

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• I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think it’s coarsened. It’s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie — or watch a television show for that matter — without hearing the constant use of the F-word — including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that!

  Antonin Scalia

  Kids, Thinking, Grandchildren

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• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

  James Huneker

  Summer, Food, July

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• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  E. B. White

  Limits, Complicated, Accounts

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• Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

  George Jones

  Government, Judging, Roles

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• The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

  Nate Silver

  Economy, Economist

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• 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

  White, Teeth, Actors

  "Max Irons talks to Stephanie Rafanelli". www.harpersbazaar.com. April 6, 2011.

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• 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

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

  Bill Vaughan

  Resurrection, Notes, New Testament

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• I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside of Washington on immigration. There's overwhelming bipartisan agreement, number one, that we need to secure the borders. That we need to finally do something to stop illegal immigration.

  Ted Cruz

  Optimistic, Agreement, Numbers

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen." "Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, House, Kitchen

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• I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Dark, Adults

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• Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

  Wole Soyinka

  People, Evil, Looks

  Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo (2001). “Conversations with Wole Soyinka”, p.159, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Children, Optimistic, Light

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• 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

  Party, Circles, America

  "CN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. March 15, 2013.

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• 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

  Optimistic, Thinking, Optimism

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• There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

  William McFee

  Years, May, Birth

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• 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

  Law, Rights, People

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• The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mind, Firsts, Pessimism

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.85, BookBaby

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• I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Cat

  Dennis Miller (2010). “Rants”, p.41, Main Street Books

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