Monday 4 July 2011

Design is about doing - Quotes to use

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.  The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute


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


A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.


An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.


A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties


Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count


Optimism is the foundation of courage


Pessimist:  One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both


Optimists are nostalgic about the future


A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad.  An optimist is a man who hopes they are


The basis of optimism is sheer terror


an optimist is a guy
that has never had
much experience.



The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.


In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning.


Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.


When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. 


Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.


The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement.


Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly


Act as if it were impossible to fail.


Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.


Try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.


In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.


Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.


Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.


Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled


A pessimist is never disappointed.


I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will


Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power


Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive









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