Quotes About Outlook

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Don't take life seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway

I'm a half-empty kind of girl.

Whatever happens, whether you succeed or you fail, people with high expectations always feel better, because how we feel — when we get dumped or we win employee of the month — depends on how we interpret that event.

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

If you think you're a success, you will be a success; if you think you deserve nothing but crap, you'll get nothing but crap. Your inner reality shapes your outer one, every day of your life.

what you get out of life is mostly what you planted. Not always, no, but mostly. If you think you're a success, you will be a success; if you think you deserve nothing but crap, you'll get nothing but crap. Your inner reality shapes your outer one, every day of your life. Do you follow me?

Life isn´t about what happens to us. It´s about how we perceive what happens to us.

We all choose how to look at life. -- A Prologue to Love

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

I think crying over spilt milk and being all moody and sulky is really bratty behavior. You shouldn't do it, because it's going to drag you and everyone else around you down.

I try to put a positive spin on things.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: 'Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'

If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

My perspective will create my perception

Happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of happiness.

You could also ask who's in charge. Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.