Robert Sapolsky Quotes

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

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

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

I try and look at the positives in every situation.

I was brought up to always see the glass half full instead of half empty and played my cricket that way.

I'm not a glass-half-full optimist. I'm a glass-overflowing optimist.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

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

I like to look at the glass half full.

I'm an eternal optimist.

I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

I'm absolutely an optimist. It's the only way to get through life.

I am an optimist.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

At the end of the day, my optimistic personality always takes over.

I'm very much a glass-is-half-full guy.

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.