Quotes About Perspective

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

One life is way too short to be pessimistic, so you've got to be positive and optimistic.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

I'm not as pessimistic as what a number of people seem to believe.

Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our time, and depending on when you ask me, I feel optimistic or pessimistic about it.

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

In this pessimistic world, especially in America, a positive outlook is very necessary.

I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset.

My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

I thought that I was a crazy pet owner, but now I realize I'm not so bad.

I hate those articles - this is a pet peeve of mine - like move over X, here's the new Y. And it's just like, X didn't become obsolete because there's a person doing a similar thing. You also don't have to be like the new old-thing, you're just the current you-thing.

Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.