Thomas Hardy Quotes

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality.

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

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

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

I expect the worst of every situation, so if it does happen I'm prepared for it.

I plan for the best and expect the worst.

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.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

I've never been an optimist.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.