I am by turns an optimist and a pessimist.

The Year of Rational Pessimism

Everyone feels pessimistic.

But Argentines are not pessimistic about the economy because other Argentines are pessimistic. They are pessimistic because the economy s fundamentals are weak a fundamental difference.

The paragraph should be neither overly optimistic nor overly pessimistic.

The Dismal Economist s Joyless Triumph

In Kurzweilian terms this is gloomy.

Well, I'm not an optimist, neither am I a pessimist.

And that is, I understand that optimists greatly outlive pessimists.

Even the most pessimistic impact scenarios of the U.N.

And today we have a kind of evangelical pessimism all around us.

It's more than enough reason for pessimism.

Europe s Misguided Growth Pessimists

Headline in South Africa They have landed. Quite ominous.

Again, the eyes and hands of Avalokiteshvara.

It's too late to be pessimistic really too late.

I should like to say as well that I have heard many very pessimistic remarks.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.

We do not want to be pessimistic we want to be realistic.

In difficult times, pessimism is a self fulfilling, self inflicted death sentence.

So there's lots of reason for pessimism.

And according to the surveys, we are marked the most pessimistic people in the world.

But first, compassion is comprised of that capacity to see clearly into the nature of suffering.

In Kurzweilian terms I'm like the Eeyore of economic growth.

But we have a very pessimistic approach about the cities.

Several previous speakers have made a pessimistic diagnosis of the situation.

Pessimists see a world where more people means less food, where rising demand for resources means depletion and war, and, in recent decades, where boosting production capacity means more pollution and global warming. One of the current generation of pessimists sacred texts, The Limits to Growth, influences the environmental movement to this day.

Nevertheless, we must not yield to resignation or pessimism on the contrary, let us continue to hope.

A famous one, it's called the Sevenfold Causal Method of Developing Compassion.

That not only delays development, but casts a shroud of pessimism over the very achievement of the Millennium Goals.

BERLIN I am on a two week European tour at a time that could make one either very pessimistic or constructively optimistic about Europe s prospects.

My name is Jonathan Zittrain, and in my recent work I've been a bit of a pessimist.

We must mobilize the political will to change negative trends, in order to prevent polarization and pessimism.

We've come away from the Freudian gloom, and people are now actively studying this.

As Norwegian social scientist Evelin Lindner has observed, Pessimism is a luxury of good times ...

Secondly, my delegation remains somewhat pessimistic with regard to the two Tribunals accomplishing their tasks by 2010.

PARIS Are non Europeans much less pessimistic about Europe than Europeans themselves? Could distance be a prerequisite for a more balanced view of the continent s predicament?

Likewise, the IMF now predicts that the European economy will be 7.8 smaller in 2015 than it thought just two years ago. Some forecasters are more pessimistic than others (the OBR has a particularly sunny disposition), but no one, it seems, has been pessimistic enough.

The Wireless Watch flopped miserably in the market, but it wasn't because it wasn't simply and beautifully designed.

That sounded rather pessimistic when speaking of something that everyone had worked hard to make a reality.

They foresee years and even decades of slow growth in Europe. Politically, too, the process of adjustment by deflation in deficit countries is so unpleasant and difficult that many pessimists think it will ultimately prove to be unsustainable.

You can be a general, a politician, an economist who is depressed, a musician in a minor key, a painter in dark colors.

So, if the UK's new government makes a final decision from the prospective of maximizing its people's welfare, nuclear power projects will not see a gloomy outlook.

I'm going to try to give you a view of the world as I see it, the problems and the opportunities that we face, and then ask the question if we should be optimistic or pessimistic.

Just as last year when there was unwarranted growth pessimism in Europe, this year there is unwarranted growth euphoria. Many Germans, in particular, are in denial that the cyclical upturn may be coming to an end.