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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.
Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Whether we like it or not, there are moments in history when pessimism is the appropriate response.
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!
Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
I'm finding myself increasingly attracted to literature that starts with pessimism as it's leading point and goes from there.
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
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.
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
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.
Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.