Quotes About Outlook

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Tolerance of diverse views and of heretics fosters innovation, whereas a strongly traditional outlook (as in China's emphasis on ancient Chinese classics) stifles it.

The scientific outlook is a unique feature of post-Renaissance European society that has contributed heavily to its modern technological preeminence.

I wished I could share my own optimism.

Oh, hullo, Worthing,' he said in a cheery manner. 'How are things?' 'Outlook stormy with a chance of scattered death moving in randomly from all points of the compass.

Wales: not ALWAYS raining

I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

My mom says I have to be more positive, and I say life has to be more positive too or it's just not going to work.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

I don't stress at all. When other people say, 'I'm having a bad day,' I ask, 'How can you have a bad day for the entire 24 hours, or even 12 or eight hours?' Something bad might happen, but that can't make the entire day bad.

I don't stress too much on things, be it failure or success.

I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.

I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.

I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.