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

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

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.

Europe s Misguided Growth Pessimists

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.

I am by turns an optimist and a pessimist.

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

The Year of Rational Pessimism

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

Everyone feels pessimistic.

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

The paragraph should be neither overly optimistic nor overly pessimistic.

The Dismal Economist s Joyless Triumph

In Kurzweilian terms this is gloomy.

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.

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.

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.

Woe to the vanquished.

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

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.

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.

It was agreed that the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) would be the appropriate forum in which to discuss those issues.

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.

The CTC must ensure that the sacrifices made by the victims of terrorism, however tragic, are not in vain.

Participants also discussed the involvement of Observers in the climate change process.

Kicillof s second point was that Argentina s businesses and consumers should not succumb to pessimism. Alluding to Keynes s theories about self fulfilling expectations, he warned that, if people expect things to go wrong, they will.

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

In the summer of 2003, public debate and market sentiment in the euro area were influenced by Japan s protracted deflation and the expectation of a possibly severe disinflationary process in America. Some observers saw a risk of sustained deflation in the euro area as well.

And it was my theory, or my point of view, that one didn't upstage the neighborhood one made accommodations.

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.

If the axis tilt theory had been refuted, its defenders would have had nowhere to go.

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.