Mike Judge Quotes

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

I see the glass half full...but of poison.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

I do think that I am generally optimistic.

I don't think I'm delusional, but I'm definitely a dreamer; I definitely want to see the best in things and I believe in what I do.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

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

I'm an eternal optimist.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.