John McGinn Quotes

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

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

I'm not a positive guy.

I'm sort of a negative guy.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

I'm probably the most negative person around.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Pessimism is my default setting.

One of the pleasures of pessimism is that when you’re right, you’re right and when you’re not, you’re pleased.

I've always been a glass-half-empty sort of person.

I'm a massive pessimist.

I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives.

I always focus on the negatives.

So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

I've never been an optimist.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

I'm very pessimistic.