They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply ... -Ehud Barak

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They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.

Ehud Barak , Statesman
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Israeli politician and former Prime Minister of Israel. Barak also served as the Minister of Defense and held various high-ranking military positions. He played a significant role in Israeli politics and security matters.

Ehud Barak Quotes to Explore

I know Fiat plans to start manufacturing cars in Iran. This is wrong....
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds....
The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence...
Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely....
Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced....
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience....
Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews....

Experience Quotes to Explore

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing p...
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in b...
Socialism and Communism are extremely attractive to a superficial observer. It is not until you get into the details, or actually experience it, that ...
The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it....
Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer....
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy....
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later....
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our r...
The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet mor...
When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experien...