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Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.
Jared Diamond
Hope
You
Our
Some
No Hope
Cases
Remarkably
Driving
Days
Forces
Although
Said
Been
Years
Years Ago
Very
Behind
Biggest
Might
CEOs
Acting
Pessimistic
Companies
Twenty
I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.
Jeff Lemire
People
Think
Way
Worst
Sort
Am
Often
Where
Pessimistic
On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.
Jesmyn Ward
Believe
Other
Would
Something
Spoken
Am
Hand
Up
Very
Speaking
Pessimistic
I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.
Jesse Eisenberg
Attitude
Time
Good
Worried
Everything
Bad
About
Seem
Tend
Comfortable
Permanent
End
Very
Going
Then
Pessimistic
Things
It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.
John Vane
Attitude
Sometimes
Path
Made
Important
Nothing
Too
Other
Right Path
Plenty
Trick
Find
Major
Ideas
Altogether
Said
Been
Discover
Discoveries
Left
Pessimistic
Right
Things
Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Me
Nervous
Restless
Troubles
Most
American
Pessimistic
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
Jordan Peterson
Nature
Laziness
Think
Our
Those
About
Betrayal
Atrocity
Inertia
Am
Human
Transcend
Human Beings
Straight
Capacity
Pessimistic
Beings
Things
Set
I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.
Juliette Lewis
Positive
Fighting
Way
Always
Versus
Being
Pessimistic
I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
Kim Jee-woon
Nervous
Outgoing
Am
Person
Quite
Being
Different
Skeptical
Average
Average Person
Pessimistic
Compared
It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.
Mark Zandi
Collective
Believe
Difficult
Extraordinarily
Easy
Economic
Most
Wrongs
Mess
Got
Times
Than
Closer
Psyche
Us
Pessimistic
Difficult Times
The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks.
Murray Rothbard
Panic
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Most
Opponents
His
Bank
Famous
Banks
Confirmation
Views
Pessimistic
Jefferson
Credit
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
Naguib Mahfouz
Age
Pessimistic
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver
About
More
Economists
Economy
Most
Than
Public
Pessimistic
Even
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.
Nathan Englander
Myself
Pessimist
Way
Call
Sure
Always
Optimist
Optimistic
Goes
Either
Which
Pessimistic
I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
Nicholas Hoult
Work
Time
You
Try
Pessimist
Too
Out
Optimist
Optimistic
Depressing
Work Out
Then
Pessimistic
Things
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
Orson F. Whitney
God
Obedience
Dark
Dark Side
Slow
Men
Down
Complains
Side
Spirit
Looks
Gospel
Opposite
Trusts
Optimistic
Yield
Pessimistic
Bright
Away
Things
Murmur
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.
Paul Hawken
Future
You
Science
Earth
About
Data
Look
Understand
Answer
Always
Am
Optimistic
Same
Happening
Asked
Pessimistic
I'm not pessimistic about anything.
Paul Watson
About
Anything
Pessimistic
I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.
Peter Thiel
Future
You
Change
People
Low Expectations
Think
Change Things
Meet
Those
About
Generally
Likely
Expectations
Low
Working
View
Working Hard
Hard
Pessimistic
Europe
Things
I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.'
Robert Zubrin
Great
Age
Space
College
Country
Become
Entered
Had
Part
Over
Limits
Up
Mode
Effort
Graduated
Moved
Space Exploration
Wanted
Grew
Apollo
Exploration
Pessimistic
Program
I don't want to be a grumpy old man or too pessimistic, because if I have a chance, I would prefer to watch a film in the cinema with an audience on a big screen instead of watching it on a cell phone. It's a very different experience, but somehow I think this form will have its own future and life.
Wong Kar-wai
Life
Future
Man
Cell Phone
Experience
Cinema
Phone
Old
Will
Big
Own
Think
Too
Would
Somehow
Instead
Because
Audience
Very
Cell
Big Screen
Screen
Different
Want
Form
Prefer
Old Man
Pessimistic
Film
Watch
Grumpy
Watching
Chance
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