Alan Cohen Quotes

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

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

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

I'm a generally optimistic person.

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.

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.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

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

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

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

I'm a relatively optimistic kind of guy.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

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

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

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

I just look at the high and bright side of things.

I'm an optimist by nature.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

Well, I'm an optimist.

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

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.