A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.
I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.
I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
I'm a total pessimist.
I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.
Hold on to your dream. Don't let past failures or dire economic forecasts make you a pessimist. Keep your youthful dreams alive and create your own opportunities.
In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
