Paul Davies Quotes

I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.

I'm such a fan of the glass being half full.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

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'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

Negativity doesn't help me.

I'm always optimistic.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Well, I'm an optimist.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

I am not a cynic.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

I have no cynicism at all.

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

I have met so many people who are negative, and it tells on their attitude towards life and towards everything.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.