Quotes About Outlook

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Expectations placed low enough are rarely disappointed.

Vision is three-dimensional - consisting of insight, foresight, and perspective.

Optimists were optimistic, pessimists pessimistic, and the in-betweens listened to the optimists one day and to the pessimists the next.

It's not your job to be *pre-disappointed* for him, dig? You...go on and on about how big and terrible 'the world' is. Well, maybe so. But in that case, it's the world's job to be big and terrible, not yours.

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'

How bad could things be if my hair was neat?

Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life.

This seemed to drive home the basic principle that perspective and distance affect perception.

Real life doesn't have to suck.

Cool isn't about where you go. It's a way of looking at the world.

The difference between bitter and better is I.

It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work

If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.

I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

Always see the positive aspect of every situation you find yourself