quotes about Pessimist
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[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
-- Amy WaldmanSource : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.17, Macmillan
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It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
-- Barbara Mertz -
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
-- Christian D. Larson -
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I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
-- Christopher NolanSource : "Biography: Christopher Nolan". www.thecinemaholic.com. February 10, 2018.
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I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
-- Colin Mochrie -
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
-- Craig Venter -
Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
-- David Harley -
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A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
-- Edmond Rostand -
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
-- Elias Canetti -
To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
-- Elsa Triolet -
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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
-- Eric Sevareid -
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
-- Frances Moore Lappé -
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
-- Harvey MackaySource : Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
-- Jack Welch -
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
-- James JonesSource : James Jones (2011). “From Here to Eternity: The Restored Edition”, p.943, Open Road Media
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I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
-- James Lovelock -
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
-- Joan Baez -
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
-- Julian Tuwim -
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Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
-- Laurell K. HamiltonSource : Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.324, Penguin
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I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
-- Lesslie Newbigin -
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
-- Lewis Mumford -
I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
-- Mark Twain -
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
-- Martin SeligmanSource : Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.312, Vintage
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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
-- Max Lerner -
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
-- Maynard James KeenanSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.
-- Mira Grant -
An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu -
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
-- Norman Cousins -
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.
-- Nouriel Roubini -
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
-- Oscar Wilde -
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
-- Paul Harvey -
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
-- Peter Benchley -
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
-- Peter Greenaway -
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The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
-- Ralph Waldo TrineSource : Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune With the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty (New Thought Edition)”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
-- Rex StoutSource : Rex Stout (2010). “Fer-de-Lance”, p.3, Crimeline
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Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.
-- Robin Sharma -
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
-- Shimon Peres -
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I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.
-- Spike Lee -
Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.
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I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.
-- Thomas Buckner -
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
-- Thomas Friedman -
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
-- Victor Cherbuliez -
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
-- Voltaire -
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
-- Will Harvey -
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
-- William GoldingSource : William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.211, Penguin
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You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
-- Rondal Partridge -
I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
-- Antonio Gala -
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.
-- Francois Guizot -
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I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.
-- Grumpy Cat -
When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.
-- Jan Smuts -
There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?
-- Joe Posnanski