The pessimist has it right that past trends may continue, but the pessimist is wrong about what those past trends have been.
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You cannot be a pessimist and look at these companies.
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Photo: Patrick Howell O'NeillIt's easy to be a security pessimist.
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Scratch a climate skeptic, and you'll find an innovation pessimist.
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"I was a pessimist," Wilder says, and with fair reason.
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Being a pessimist isn't a bad thing in this case.
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In fact, I'm cited in the paper as a pessimist!
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"I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive," Baldwin said.
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If you're a pessimist, you see pessimism, and so forth.
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That really depends on whether you're an optimist or a pessimist.
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You're the optimist of the zodiac, but Capricorn is the pessimist.
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She was an optimist also, whereas he was innately somewhat pessimist.
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I'm an optimistic pessimist and I think you're an optimistic optimist.
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People just don't want to follow someone who is a pessimist.
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I certainly don't want such a vain pessimist as First Lady.
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And Clinton is a political pragmatist — maybe even a political pessimist.
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A pessimist would remind you this is the Browns we're talking about.
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Because dreams stay dreams, until a pessimist drags them into the light.
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Being a pessimist (I'm British, after all), I fear that may happen.
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" He insisted that he was neither a cynic nor a "categorical pessimist.
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Among Mr. Laqueur's last books was "Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist" (2017).
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A pessimist believes life will get worse; an optimist knows it will.
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But I'm a bit of a pessimist and cautious to a fault.
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You just need to decide if you are a pessimist or an optimist.
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"I'm a pessimist, and a realist, or somewhere in between," he told me.
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I think I am an optimist by day and a pessimist by nighttime.
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But he is not a cyber-pessimist or a fetishizer of the analog.
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"But the pessimist in me has seen too many things like this happen."
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By professional training and personal disposition, I am a bit of a pessimist.
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Well, you're the pessimist of the zodiac, so I probably shouldn't ask you.
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Learning optimism What if you take the test and discover you're a pessimist?
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As a total pessimist, I'm kind of relieved that the year's been so horrible.
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He says the bottom line is that "no one" wants to follow a pessimist.
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I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.
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Do you see yourself as a pessimist when it comes to work-related matters?
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As a pessimist, it struck me that the vote is a bit like Brexit.
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I am on record as a pessimist about constructive conservative engagement on climate change.
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So that's been a hard thing, because it's not as though I'm a pessimist.
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Do you consider yourself an optimist or a pessimist when it comes to the environment?
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Botten, who said he was a "reasonable pessimist" about the next 12 to 18 months.
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Here are the harmful side effects of being a pessimist: It's late past 12 a.m.
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Even with his recourse, though, Beck maintains that he's not a pessimist — he's a catastrophist.
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The pessimist UBI supporters are convinced that society cannot continue without a permanent handout structure.
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Everybody is a professional pessimist in business these days, including a lot of the VCs.
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"A pessimist never triumphs," Mr. Moreno said with a wide smile, flashing a golden tooth.
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But you don't have to be a great pessimist or a defeatist to be skeptical.
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I wept, slept and awoke a gloomy pessimist, forever haunted by the fall of man.
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"Engineer's pessimism is what's at play; the question is who's right" — the pessimist or the optimist.
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"He said that he was a short-term pessimist but a long-term optimist," Page says.
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"For The Pessimist, it's better to have not tried than to try and fail," she says.
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When it comes to being a pessimist, it can be a case of mind over matter.
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"Generally I'm a pessimist," Barbara Spellman, a former editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science, tells me.
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I hate to play the pessimist, but I'm feeling pretty Simpsons meme at this announcement. You?
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Think of a sailboat with three people aboard: a pessimist, an optimist, and a great leader.
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"I'm a pessimist, and I am particularly cynical when it comes to politics," Ms. Wu said.
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How do you distinguish a foreign policy "idealist" from a "realist," an optimist from a pessimist?
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So I tend also for France to be much more to the optimist than the pessimist side.
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I guess I'm a big pessimist, because I just believe that our existence is totally worthless, really.
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"I'm not a pessimist—I'm a catastrophist," he says, before telling Bee that she's a "catastrophist" too.
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Schopenhauer is a pessimist, resigned to the fact that the world is senseless, lacking meaning and reason.
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Nietzsche wondered how much of a pessimist Schopenhauer could really be given that he played the flute.
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As for insights into the human condition, I think I am the same pessimist I always was.
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Or rather, I was a pessimist before I hit my head; I am slowly returning to it now.
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I think it's very easy to consider yourself a pessimist, considering everything that's going on in the world.
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Being a security pessimist is understandable, but being a security realist might be better for your digital health.
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Add it all together, and you'll understand why this farmer is turning into a pessimist about the future.
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I don't think I'd be where I am if I were a pessimist, because I would have quit.
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"I can't be a pessimist, because I'm alive," Baldwin says in footage that appears late in the film.
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Astrologers have accused you of being a pessimist, Capricorn, but the truth is, you're just a realistic person!
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Note, too, that the leading techno-pessimist Robert Gordon, of Northwestern University, also assumes that productivity growth will rebound.
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"I'm not a pessimist, I'm a data-driven optimist," said Martin Green from the University of New South Wales.
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"Playing that optimist and that pessimist and knowing that right balance at all times is really hard," says Tilenius.
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"A pessimist might conclude, the only way to avoid routing through surveillance states is not to route at all."
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You're not a pessimist, but you do realize the downsides that come with life and dealing with other people.
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They reject the finding by some researchers that people are set early as either an optimist or a pessimist.
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One says, if you're a pessimist in these times, you think things are as bad as they could be.
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So when you moan, you become a pessimist who trains your brain to look for the "bad" in things.
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty," Churchill famously said.
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He had become a pessimist about the effectiveness of government programs and therefore a critic of much social policy.
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I'm a big pessimist and I don't see any sign that Capitol Hill is moving anywhere close to legislation.
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"I hate to be such a pessimist, but I don't believe the Republicans will end up doing anything," he said.
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A pessimist might say that betas are nice and all, but given the history, we should probably assume the worst.
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"People rarely say 'I'm a pessimist'—they seem to historically be using it in a finger-pointing way," Thacker said.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
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OK, the jobs pessimist might reply, maybe there will be jobs in the future but they'll be jobs barely worth having.
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You know I&aposm a pessimist, but I&aposll tell you that the GOP is putting together the ingredients for success.
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Ho has a voice is as effervescent as La Croix, and her energy would make a puppy look like a pessimist.
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But I'm also an ethical pessimist in that I recognize that this is not happening in the way that it should.
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Nixon was a pessimist who liked to brood alone with a bottle of whisky, whereas Mr Johnson is a gregarious optimist.
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Call me a pessimist, but I think this could also turn into a long-term problem for Congress and the country.
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He was a hopeful pessimist who knew the struggle would be long but he had faith in providence and ultimate justice.
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The end of Discovery's first season could have made a pessimist fear that the series hadn't established its own identity strongly enough.
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" A journalist who "could almost be mistaken for a pessimist", he "can be very cynical and distrusting of what [he] comes across.
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In the face of a worst-case scenario that would leave millions of people displaced, Pollard won't say whether he's a pessimist.
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Opinion Columnist Although I'm a pessimist by nature, deep down I think I always believed that the Republic would survive Donald Trump.
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And yet despite fully meeting the textbook definition of "the opposite of an optimist," I've never thought to label myself a pessimist.
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Still, even a music pessimist would have to note that the streaming boom is now bigger than the rest of the industry's decline.
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"I disagree that Trump is a pessimist," Reid said, as if to allow him that mantle would be paying him an undeserved compliment.
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"This is just my tenderness/My wretchedness/I'm a pessimist," he mutters—and also, as he's mentioned before, a poltergeist: an invisible disruptor.
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Mr Zizek: Yes, but in a way different from the one that Lacan had in mind in his pessimist reading of the 1968 turmoil.
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I don't want to sound like an even broader pessimist, but ... I wasn't giving him a hard time, but he just keeps saying it.
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"Like with most things in my life, I'm kind of an optimistic pessimist," said one such rider, Kelsey Rogers, who uses the system daily.
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Even if you're a huge pessimist, to help change the trajectory for one out of 10 companies changes the portfolio from five winners to six.
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Seen as a Europhile and a pessimist when it came to Brexit, Rogers conducted David Cameron's renegotiation with the EU before the referendum last June.
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Where does someone who is neither a president seeking re-election, a central banker seeking steadiness nor a stone-cold pessimist conclude that things stand?
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I'm a pessimist, the person who is useful in the worst-case scenario because they are the only one who planned for the worst-case scenario.
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I don't want to be a pessimist but we're relying on OPEC and it's in their best interest to cut production, and we're relying on them.
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The real dispute at hand is between Pinker's hyper-optimism and a more guarded optimism grounded in historical fact, not between Enlightenment rationalists and pessimist intellectuals.
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Though McCain says the ugly, divisive and polarizing election has "almost turned her into a pessimist," she still has hope for the future of her party.
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Julie Norem, a psychology professor at Wellesley College who studies optimism and pessimism, says that being a pessimist isn't necessarily a bad thing for most people.
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It is time for even the most beaten-down, wind-worn Chicago pessimist to admit the Cubs are a clutch ball club with a gifted lineup.
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Polanski, by contrast, was a fatalist and dire pessimist — not surprising, given that the course of his life was so violently rewritten by Hitler and Manson.
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"I am not a pessimist but the rain in the past two weeks on ripe wheat has caused damage in some areas," a German grains analyst said.
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That is, are you generally an optimist, someone who tends to see the positive sides of situations — or a pessimist, someone who more often sees the negative?
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But if you are a pessimist you might wonder why they would loosen up then, especially if U.S.-China relations and the PRC economy continue in downward trajectories?
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A pessimist could argue that this survey, like the many before it, is extremely unlikely to turn up anything more than the background chatter of the cosmos itself.
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I'm not a pessimist, but as the years go on what we're starting to see is IoT finding its footing in augmenting other systems rather than revolutionizing them.
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Close friends of mine wouldn't describe me as a pessimist, but they would admit that I'm skeptical to a cumbersome degree, especially when it comes to food stuff.
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The narrator is a pessimist, at least in this scene, during which he posits that the artistic flame that used to illuminate the world has now gone out.
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If you tend to be a pessimist — don't worry — researchers say you can train your mind to have a more hopeful and positive outlook even during life's challenging times.
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"The fixed income market, usually the world's greatest pessimist, tends to look way out in the future when pricing the current market," wrote Raymond James rates strategist Kevin Giddis.
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" Best encapsulation of the Black Hat (pessimist) thinking, from a Republican close to Senate leadership: "I think the gap is too wide and they are getting zero help from POTUS.
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I don't want to be a pessimist, but do you honestly think our leaders will have the stamina to talk about the Thousand Oaks shooting when the cameras are gone?
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The pessimist in me says there's going to be so much real estate that there's going to be a lot of landfill — stuff that might not be worth everyone's time.
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Fukuyama was originally an elitist pessimist of the old neoconservative school; he studied Western philosophy with Allan Bloom (himself a student of Leo Strauss) in his undergraduate years at Cornell.
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I took the opportunity to invite Kass into the studio to talk about her work, her thoughts on the art world (she's a pessimist), the role of art today, and more.
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"I don't mean to sound like a pessimist or to overstate the fact, but I think we can objectively say there's a lot of bad people in the world," Remender says.
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His chronology ends at around 1960, with the general art historical surveys of E.H. Gombrich and H.W. Janson, a pessimist and an optimist respectively about the art of their own times.
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His ferocious, semiautobiographical short stories about boxers, custodians, soldiers, crime victims, cancer patients and asylum inmates coupled a fateful machismo — the eternal pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer was his hero — with grim humor.
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The prominent economic pessimist David Stockman, a director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan administration, said Wall Street was "delusional" if it believed the plan would pass.
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It would have pleased him — the preacherly pessimist, the fit-to-be-tied optimist — to see that although Ms. Gary's piece is titled "An Ecstatic Experience," its contents short-circuit uplift.
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I don't know if pessimist is the right word, but I think things will evolve and I think you will see the worlds of technology and content become much more embracing.
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With the internet, life-saving potatoes, and sunglasses for dogs having already been invented, you can't blame a pessimist for wondering if there's even anything good left to bring into the world.
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Experiencing the world of the blockbuster video game character unweighted by reality, who starts out from their home and crushes the world beneath their heel, has made me more of a pessimist.
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Yet, like many Democrats in a state that has voted to send Republicans to the White House in nine consecutive presidential races spanning four decades, he is equal parts optimist, realist and pessimist.
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Probably, but if you can go with the flow (Neptune's all about flow) and face some disappointments gracefully (you're basically a professional pessimist, so you'll live), you will be all right with Neptune.
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I, for one, think such an idea is impossible, but I'm also a morose pessimist who moved to Wisconsin by choice and whose favorite event was an annual pig roast on a dairy farm.
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The author was a slouchy hero of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture: an anti-establishment, anti-war, satirical pessimist with a self-professed penchant for late-night drunken phone calls and Pall Mall cigarettes.
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More likely, it was the silent pessimist stewing across from the sweet potatoes, part of the large majority of Donald Trump followers who believe life is worse today than it was 50 years ago.
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Yeah, I did say that I thought Trump was going to win very, very early, but I'm not sure if that was based purely on the data or just because I'm a total pessimist.
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A general Pollyannaish ecosystem-wide optimism because there's no upside in being a pessimist, as the overwhelming majority of failures are ultimately simply absorbed into the winners to be spun out again as new attempts?
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But if you're a pessimist, you could read ominous undertones into premium Firefox as the start of browsers pivoting toward becoming yet another subscription service as Chrome's competitors try to whittle away at its dominance.
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"What a shame I decided to take a vacation out of the city during this period," wrote Dora Kramer, a columnist for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo and a self-described Olympic pessimist.
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"He's a pessimist, so he thought it would come out terribly," said Richard H. Thaler, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and a longtime friend of both Mr. Kahneman and Mr. Tversky.
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The pessimist would correctly respond that his economic program during his first term, when Democrats had huge majorities in Congress, was so modest that the result was the weakest economic recovery in more than 40 years.
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And while the saving-history story lines give rise to earnestness and sentimentality, there's a nice vein of humor, mostly channeled through Rufus (Malcolm Barrett), the tech guy, who's a pessimist and an initially reluctant warrior.
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Moore says that does not mean he is a pessimist: Even if AI researchers make no further breakthroughs, improving the discoveries already made — such as in interpreting speech — "will lead to big advances" in the future.
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A pessimist might say that he never even came close to being the president he promised to be, and was one of the great disappointments in the history of progressivism compared to what he could have accomplished.
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Though there is a clear difference between what you believe and what you want to believe — a pessimist may expect the worst but hope for the best — when it comes to political beliefs, they are frequently aligned.
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Even the eternal optimist (or pessimist) would struggle for a good explanation as to why the Raptors completely no-showed a crucial playoff game, and so expecting them not to do so again is an exercise in faith.
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If you're a pessimist, and Starlink either struggles to turn its first few hundred satellites into a working internet service or fails to get many customers, the analysts said their "bear case" for SpaceX is just $5 billion.
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It may have left him open to accusations of being a pessimist by Brexit campaigners, but it summed up the mood of most market participants who find themselves in a world of negative rates and ultra-aggressive monetary policy.
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The pessimist would say that a foot problem for a guard is not the equivalent of a back problem for a big and that Porter's brief return in the postseason is hardly proof that his troubles are behind him.
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But optimist-pessimist is a useful enough binary of character, and Johnson must read differently to pessimists, who might fight the intoxicating "Wonderland," arguing that "fun" is a tool of the surveillance state, petrochemical dealers or something equally sinister.
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Related: The Health Benefits Of Being An Optimist Vs. A Pessimist"We feel accomplished in the fantasized-about future, so we don't actually put in the work needed to achieve that future," lead study author Gabriele Oettingen, PhD, explained to Shape.
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The pessimist throws his hands up and complains about the wind; the optimist sits back, saying that things will improve; but the great leaders says, "We can do this!" and he adjusts the sails and keeps the ship moving forward.
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A MINUS The Mekons and Robbie Fulks: Jura (Bloodshot) Recorded on the Scottish title island for Record Store Black Friday with jaunty pessimist Fulks sitting in for heroic depressive Tom Greenhalgh, this sold out pronto and is now download-only.
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A specialist in the 17th-century Dutch thinker Baruch Spinoza, who saw happiness as one of the goals of philosophy, he instead turns to the pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher of 200 years later, as his mental health suffers.
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Argentina's inflation is seen quickening by an eye-watering 40.3 percent in full-year 2019 while the economy shrinks 1.5 percent, according to a central bank poll that was released on Tuesday and showed more pessimist forecasts than a month earlier.
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We've spent six seasons watching dreamer Jess (Zooey Deschanel), pessimist Nick (Johnson), pragmatic Cece (Hannah Simone), melodramatic Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and lovable weirdo Winston (Lamorne Morris) make messes and find success in LA. And by "Five Stars for Beezus," everyone's reached their endgames.
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"I don't want to be a pessimist, but do you honestly think our leaders will have the stamina to talk about the Thousand Oaks shooting when the cameras are gone?" journalist and political analyst LZ Granderson wrote in a CNN opinion piece.
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This often leads to overconfidence, and worse, the Drake equation is very sensitive to bias: if you are hopeful a small nudge upwards in several uncertain estimates will give a hopeful result, and if you are a pessimist you can easily get a low result.
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While the electrified economy had yet to complete its first dramatic cycle of boom and bust when her first book came out, a 1998 essay in "Life in Code" shows Ullman, Cassandra-like and ever the pragmatic pessimist, already bracing for the coming storm.
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The 19-century German pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer was perhaps the first philosopher to draw attention to what he called the "diabolical" in his work "On Human Nature": For man is the only animal which causes pain to others without any further purpose than just to cause it.
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But in the pessimist community generally, and the world of dissident, anti-Bush conservatives especially, this strikes me as the core problem that need to be reckoned with by anyone who wants to make a strong case for supporting Donald Trump for the sake of #disrupting our decadent elite.
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Bristol producer Pessimist today shared "Astrous," a malicious new track off his forthcoming Pagans EP on Osiris Music UK. Underpinned by a noxious flood of subbass, the track elaborates an ambiance of heated dread by melding gestures from the producer's drum and bass background with a techno template.
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Though interesting as artistic development, little in this retrospective provides the rich aesthetic pleasure of Venet's ruddy, rusty sculptures when under the pressure of gravitational breakdown, such as the beautiful and tragically elegant "Arcs in Disorder 783 Arcs" (2014) that appeals to the pointless pessimist in us all.
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How One Woman's Fight to Save Her Family Helped Lead to a Mass Exoneration [The New Yorker] The Afro-Pessimist Temptation [The New York Review of Books] The Defiant Ones [Smithsonian] There Are Wild Swings in School Desegregation Data [Education Week] We publish many articles that touch on race.
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The pessimist might say that although this phone looks incredible, it is also likely to break upon the shoals of the phone market, the same rocks that have cracked every Android phone that doesn't have the Samsung logo emblazoned on it: carrier support, consumer interest, and lack of true differentiation.
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Mark Joseph Stern at Slate, a consistent pessimist about the Court's willingness to keep liberal precedents like Roe, has outlined one path this could take: A conservative state will pass a draconian anti-abortion restriction—one that shutters all abortion clinics, perhaps, or outlaws abortion after a fetal "heartbeat" is detected.
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"I have learned, as an entrepreneur, the most important skill you have to have is you have to be an optimist and pessimist at the same time," said Stephanie Tilenius, former Google VP and founder of Vida, an app that pairs you with 24/7 access to a health coach.
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The pessimist would say, equally correctly, that even with large majorities in the House and Senate in his first two years, Obama never even tried to enact the real historic reform — single-payer healthcare — and he surrendered fundamentally important reforms such as the public option and low-cost imports of Canadian pharmaceuticals.
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Drawing on the Afro-pessimist thought of Frank Wilderson and others, the essay chronicles a history of technological innovation, dating back to the Stanford Research Institute's 1968 demo of the GUI, to argue that whiteness and transparency are assumed to be innate properties of digital interfaces, when in fact they are the result of ideological design choices.
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Now, obviously, public sector unions aren't going to like that, but I think whether it's that or .... There's just so many fundamental functional problems in the economy, in our politics, in our government, that if we're not able to make these sort of structural changes ... You were giving Bill Gurley a hard time the other day for being a pessimist on the bubble.
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For this reason, a painting like "Hoover Cock" (2016), a restatement of the 1966 canvas "LAMF" (which, according to the artist, stands for "Like a Mother Fuck" — without the more common "-er" at the end), comes off not as the work of a pessimist but an outraged idealist, even with its hard-to-take invocations of ISIS and Mein Kampf.
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Aziza Barnes: To quote Octavia Butler, "I'm uncomfortably asocial—a hermit in the middle of Seattle, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive..." What's important to me is trying to understand humanity and doing something of consequence that doesn't hurt people—that liberates people.
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The pessimist in me says there's this generations-long project on the right to try to inculcate a certain coherent set of ideals and values of limited government, of government within its constitutional bounds, of a society that is as much as possible a colorblind society, of America's place in the world, that all of that is in jeopardy and losing to a competing set of ideas that I think are far worse for American life, far more divisive and antithetical to the true spirit of the American experiment.
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