Realistic Outlook Quotes

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.

I'm a recovering optimist.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

I'm quite grounded.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

So I'm not naturally happy all the time, all upbeat. People that know me will tell you that.

I'm not gonna get it all right, but I take my victories, as small as they are.

I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.

I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don't have total happiness. People always say that. But you don't have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in.

We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?

I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.