Maureen Dowd Quotes

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

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

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Pessimism is my default setting.

I assume that the worst will happen. So I'm never optimistic.

I think 'everything sucks' is too often leaned upon as a comedic stance. It's a really easy and pretty weak perspective.

For a long time I was kind of a glass-half-empty type of person.

I'm not a positive guy.

I take no positives from losing.

I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.

Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

If I would go out against some of these players and see them as their ranking, then I probably would have already lost before I even stepped on the court.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

I'm English, so I can be very 'half empty.'

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

Whatever you think rightly concerning will go well. Whatever you think wrongly concerning, will go ill.