#pessimist

It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#being #cool #different #engaging #even

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

#everywhere #green #green light #light #only

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. ↗

— William Golding

#optimist #pessimist #nature

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#make #midnight #new #new year #old

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #although #been #behind #biggest

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. ↗

— Robert G. Allen

#buying #many #optimist #out #pessimist

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#fears #live #optimist #pessimist #possible

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ↗

— Rene Descartes

#blow #light #may #must #none

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