Optimist or pessimist?

[col]

Realists is what pessimists say they are to optimists.

 

[Gothmog]

I used to be an optimist but in my current job I work with a lot of engineers and now I know that...

The glass is twice as large as it needs to be.

 

[Zarn]

Originally posted by IglooDude
It's impossible to pleasantly surprise a true optimist.


I'm an optimist in thought and a pessimist in deed - I hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

I agree, and I am the same way.

 

[Ville]

I'm both, more pessimist I think

 

[Smellincoffee]

Optimist.

There's no point in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work, anyway.

 

[Ville]

Nothing works
I'm not that pessimistic though

 

[IglooDame]

Originally posted by Gothmog
I used to be an optimist but in my current job I work with a lot of engineers and now I know that...

The glass is twice as large as it needs to be.

And the likelihood of disastrous spills would be greatly reduced by replacing the one big glass with two fault-tolerant smaller glasses...

 

[Raijer]

I consider myself a realist, which can make me sound like a pessimist, but I believe there is always room for hope.

 

[Yaype]

I've been pessimistic about a lot of the things in the past, but I'm doing my best to be more hopeful about the future. Sure, there are a ton of problems out there, but why should we let them make us fear the future and 'let be what will be' instead of working to improve it?

 

[Double Barrel]

Realist

I don't believe a realist is either a pessimist or an optimist. It is a matter of understanding what you can, and cannot, control.

Realistic expectations can make you an optimist if it is something that you have control or influence (i.e. being on a winning team, setting yourself up for success, etc.,), while things I cannot control (i.e politics, etc.) tend to fall in my pessimistic side.

Either way, I tend to look at each situation as unique, and form an opinion and viewpoint from that perspective. No use wasting optimism on crass commercial garbage, for instance.

 

[MikeLynch]

My theory:
If your an optimist, you can either have things go well and that be what you exspected or things go badly and your sad.
If your a pessimist, you can have things go well and your pleasly surprized or things go bad and thats what you exspect, so no hard feelings.

Hey, you stole that from my sig.

To be accurate, I am a happy pessimist. My life is good and I have nothing to complain about that isn't geopolitical in scope. But I tend to focus universally on the negative. I am one of those rare people who actually can be made to feel better about a bad situation when someone says "Hey, it could be worse."

 

[Death]

It depends on the sitiuation but im more of a pessimist.

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by MikeLynch
Hey, you stole that from my sig.

To be accurate, I am a happy pessimist. My life is good and I have nothing to complain about that isn't geopolitical in scope. But I tend to focus universally on the negative. I am one of those rare people who actually can be made to feel better about a bad situation when someone says "Hey, it could be worse."

Actully, I had never seen your sig until just now. I agree with your take on the issue, however.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Pessimist. If you always look on the bright side of things, then you will be disappointed a lot. But if you expect the worse to happen, then you will be plesently surprised a lot.

 

[newfangle]

Optimist. Life is just too phucking phantastic.

 

[Mrogreturns]

I would really like to become a pessimist but I know there is no way I'll manage it.

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by newfangle
Optimist. Life is just too phucking phantastic.

As we can tell by your pro-anarchy views.

 

[puglover]

I'm an optimistic to an extent. Sometimes I'm a pessimist.