If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!
Lemony SnicketPeople who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is.
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.
An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices.
When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.
Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!
Stichwörter: optimism pessimism energy pessimist hope apple choices realism realist apples optimist optimistic annoying bobbing energetic
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
William GoldingStichwörter: pessimist nature optimist
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Don MarquisStichwörter: optimism experience optimist
Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.
Brandon SandersonStichwörter: optimist brandon-sanderson elantris
Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day after day, week after week, his nonchalance eroded my heart. Sometimes, being an optimist was quite the fucking effort.
Kristan HigginsAn optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
Jean de Lattre de TassignyStichwörter: humor man acorns optimist tassigny hammock
Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.
Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.
Is the glass part full or part empty?
Take another sip.
And now?
Stichwörter: pessimist drinking tea meditation empty heat glass full summer cold cool drink ice hot mood optimist half-empty half half-full iced iced-tea
A poet is a blind optimist.
The world is against him for
many reasons. But the
poet persists. He believes
that he is on the right track,
no matter what any of his
fellow men say. In his
eternal search for truth, the
poet is alone.
He tries to be timeless in a
society built on time.
Stichwörter: society beat prose-poetry optimist jack-kerouac timeless atop-an-underwood early-stories-and-other-writings the-poet
He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.
Adam P. KnaveStichwörter: pessimist moment optimist
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