I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'
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I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.
I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
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.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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