I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
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.
I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
I am one of those guys that's an optimist. I am always optimistic. I don't know how you can be any other way.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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