Jon Crosby Quotes

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

One must have faith in the best of men and distrust the world.

As the trust deficit persists, a deeper rot takes hold: Attitudes and norms begin to change. When no one is trustworthy, it will be only fools who trust. The concept of fairness itself is eroded.

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

I personally never trusted the audience.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

My life is actually empty, so I feel like I'm lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside.

If one player does not trust the other players, that player should not play.

It's become hard for me to trust people and though I'm the type to go, 'everybody is born good,' you come to question that.

I'm not a positive guy.

People don't trust anyone.

It's hard to trust people when your own friends seem to think poorly of you.

When you don't trust people all of the sudden you stop trusting anything.

Growing up, there were not many people I trusted. There are stories for days about how my attitude was. A lot of it's true. A lot of it's not true.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.