Kenya Barris Quotes

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

I'm an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.

I plan for the best and expect the worst.

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.

Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.

No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

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.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.