J. J. Abrams Quotes

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

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

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?

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

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

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

I try not to be too realistic. It's better to be over-positive.

It's not such a bad thing to bring some naive optimism to Washington.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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.

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

My kids and I figured out that there’s a third kind of person, and I don’t know what you call them, but it’s somebody who sees that the glass is always full because it’s half full with water and half full with nothing, so that’s the third kind of person. I don’t know what it is.

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is that it's all downhill from here. So I would just as soon believe, in my optimistic Midwestern American way, that we will recover and maybe even make lemonade out of the lemons that we are faced with.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.