Catherine Ryan Hyde Quotes

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

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

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.

I'm a realist.

When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism, which is quite... There's no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.

You know, I do have a little Pollyanna in me.

For a long time I was kind of a glass-half-empty type of person.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I can't imagine a world without hope.

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.