Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

I assume that the worst will happen. So I'm never optimistic.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Always think the worst. That way you will avoid too much disappointment in life.

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

I'm very pessimistic.

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

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

I'm probably the most negative person around.

Pessimism is my default setting.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

Never turn down a job you haven’t been offered.

I’d rather be slow and right, than be fast and dead.

I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.

I've always been a glass-half-empty sort of person.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

I don't think optimism is always the best quality for an actor, in the same way you wouldn't want a super-optimist to be a traffic controller - you want a guy that's really worried about every plane in the sky!

I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives.

People do like to talk us down, it's a Scottish thing. We are pessimistic, we look for the negatives all the time.