A Quote by Norman Cousins
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground.
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.
Pessimism is a waste of time.
The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.
In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
I have about an equal amount of optimism and pessimism.
Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.
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