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Tag Name "Pessimistic" (119)

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Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
H. R. Giger
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When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
Marshall Brickman
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon 's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come.
William James
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There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.
William McFee
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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
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I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.
William Sanderson
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I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts
Andy Warhol
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
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Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
Wole Soyinka
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno
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It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Steve Jobs
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I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.
Henry Kaufman
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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
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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
David Eddings
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The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
Mignon McLaughlin
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If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
Sigmund Freud
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I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
Nicholas Hoult
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I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.
Bill Gates
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
Charles R. Swindoll
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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
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