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“But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails”

“I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.”

Half Optimism Glad Optimist Pessimist

Author:Thomas Buckner

“I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.”

Perspective Conclusion Optimist Pessimist

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!”

Guy Wine Busy Dear Glasses Arguing Optimist Sincerely Drank Pessimist Realist Business Leaders Wine Glass Opportunist

Author:Lori Greiner

“People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.”

People Want Believe I Believe Half Empty Glasses I Believe In What You Want Practicals Optimist Filling Pessimist Half Full Half Empty

Book:Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life

Source: Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life

“No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.”

Knows Inspirational Enough Pessimist

Author:Norman Cousins

“Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving”

Giving Home Spirit Hate Interest Millions Too Much Hatred Brotherhood Cynicism Pessimist Cheerfulness Pessimistic Grasping

Author:E. Urner Goodman

“Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.”

Fear Boring Pessimism Pessimist Superfluous

Author:Elias Canetti

“The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”

Forever Optimism Intelligent Sells Expensive Pessimism Investors Swings Optimist Pessimist Realist Pendulums Unjustified

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.”

World Way Kind I Can Hard Helping Certain Pessimist

Author:Nick Cave

“Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.”

World Littles Matter Optimism Optimistic Labels Pessimism Creeds Optimist Pessimist Being Optimistic Optimism In Life Positive Optimistic Optimism And Pessimism Optimistic Life Optimists And Pessimists Positivity And Optimism

Author:James Branch Cabell

“I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.”

Responsibility Pessimist Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.”

Optimist Pessimist

Author:Eyedea

“I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.”

Thinking Should International Debate Optimistic Discussion Pessimist Pessimistic Snowden

Author:Adam Savage

“The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.”

Doe Individual Views Trouble Indifference Pessimism Creeds Thrust Pessimist

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.”

Ends Light Next Pessimism Optimist Tunnels Pessimist Realist Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Book:Pieces of Eight

Source: Pieces of Eight

“I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.”

Thinking Students Cheerful Pessimist

Author:Jacques Barzun

“The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.”

Business Pay Risk Century Tears Optimism Als Pessimism Commerce Philanthropy Optimist Pessimist Merchants

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.”

Knows Feels Humans Persons Enough Problem Next Human Beings Awareness Danger Despair Capable Conviction Defined I've Learned Bombs Pessimism Inadequate Pessimist Atomic Bomb

Author:Norman Cousins

“I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.”

Thinking Happens Awful Pessimist

Author:James Lovelock

“To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.”

Danger Profound Depressing Pessimist

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters

“The first line in the first Gasland is: “I’m not a pessimist. I’ve always had a great deal of faith in people that we won’t succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we’ll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.” I have not lost that sense.”

People Firsts Lost Lines Deals Figures Solutions Greed Rage Destroying Pessimist Frenzy

Author:Josh Fox

“I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.”

Thinking Done Successful Records Pessimist

Author:Phil Anselmo

“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.”

Ifs Trying Work Out Optimistic Depressing Optimist Pessimist Pessimistic

Author:Nicholas Hoult

“People don't like to follow pessimists.”

People Pessimist

Author:Bob Iger

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