When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.
I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.
Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
I'm usually always thinking about the cons.
Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
Depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
I'm rarely optimistic.
There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.
I am wrapped in dismal thinking.
I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.
In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.
I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.
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.
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.
You can find negative people everywhere you go. The last thing in the world you want to do is talk to them, because all they're gonna do is cement pessimism in you!
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.
