Quotes by Pessimistic At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. Naguib Mahfouz pessimisticagebirthday The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. Nate Silver economistpessimisticeconomy I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full. Nigahiga pessimisticglasseshalf I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do. Norman Reedus pessimisticoptimisticthinking My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times. Olivia Wilde pessimisticoptimisticparent At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve. Osama Alomar pessimisticoptimisticfighting I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea that sort of workers will find nothing else to do seems like it's way too pessimistic on the capabilities of everyone as human beings, right? Patrick Collison pessimistictechnologythinking If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic. Paul Hawken pessimisticfocustrying I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness. Paul Theroux pessimisticcitiesheart How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be. Peter Schwartz pessimisticdareused No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway. Price Pritchett pessimistic I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted. Ron Currie Jr. pessimismpessimisticlittles I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature. Sergio Leone pessimisticmayideas Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change. Seth Godin thankspessimisticculture If it's not one thing, it's your mother. Sigmund Freud pessimisticpsychologymother To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism. Simone de Beauvoir pessimisticfeministdone The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased. Sonja Lyubomirsky pessimisticselfpeople No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion. Stuart Hughes pessimisticproportionissues I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel. Theodore von Karman pessimisticfutureachieve There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start. William McFee pessimisticmayyears«1234»
