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Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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About Almost Almost Anything Always Anything Erudite More Optimistic Pessimistic Public Strike Than Visions

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Joseph A. Schumpeter
American - Economist
February 8, 1883 - January 8, 1950

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.

Paul Hawken

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.

Paul Hawken

I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

Louise Erdrich

Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows how it started. The status quo, he knows, has to be maintained, otherwise there is no chance. He knows that this revolution is completely understandable and is also commendable. He also knows the negatives. In the end, that's not a very positive position to be in.

John Hurt

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

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

Nate Silver

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Elon Musk

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Adam Savage

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

John Hurt

When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

Eugene Ionesco

If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.

Peter Thiel

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

Martin Seligman

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

Nathan Englander

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

Karl Pilkington

The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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