pessimism

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

We__e programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. It__ kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door.

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with

Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

One physician may gravely exaggerate an illness and give up hope altogether. Another may ignorantly declare that there is no illness and that no treatment is necessary, thus deceiving the patient with false consolation. You may call the first one pessimistic and the second one optimistic. Both are equally dangerous.

The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

It is our non negotiable responsibility to always stay positive, no matter what! The only thing that can make you negative is the thing you allow to make you negative! Think well and stay positive!

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.