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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.
He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him
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.
Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.
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 ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.
The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.
I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.
It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.
Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity
I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.
I'm finding myself increasingly attracted to literature that starts with pessimism as it's leading point and goes from there.
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism.
We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best.
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
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.
Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.
As long as we can imagine a better path, of course we are obligated to seek it. This is why unwarranted pessimism about our future is actually irresponsible.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
You can find negative people everywhere you go. The last thing in the world you want to do is talk to them, because all they're gonna do is cement pessimism in you!
No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.
The Democrats have always owned the pessimism. It's just the way it's worked out.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.
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.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.
I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.
The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.
It is quite difficult at PSG because when you lose a game there is a lot of pessimism.
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.
Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.
I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.
