Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.
Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.
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.
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
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.
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.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.
Pessimism is the key to see what really goes on within our world, the lies and manipulation that circles us all is exposed
No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to “preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command, victory is scarcely obtainable.” Eisenhower r...
Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
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.
