Quotes About Outlook

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

And in any case, I am someone else now. This seems to contradict earlier assertions that you are in old age the person you always were. What I mean is that old age has different needs, different satisfactions, a different outlook. I remember my young self, and I am not essentially changed, but I perform otherwise today. There are things I no longer want, things I no longer do, things that are now important.

The problem about us,' said Helen, 'is that we've never felt the same way about money as most other people seem to.' 'I've never thought of it as a problem.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

If you expect the worst, you can only be suprised

To supply data is not enough. The data have to be integrated with strategy, they have to test a company's assumptions, and they must challenge a company's current outlook. One

A problem that seems unsolvable always looks different in the light of a new day.

If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government

How we see depends, in part, on what we want to see.

You're an unusual person, she said. Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so—so prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should become—broadened in his outlook?

Weltanschauung.

The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.

Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

maybe from other experiences as well, that there are more ways than one, more than two, of seeing things and perceiving their meanings.

Madeline displayed the bright sadder-but-wiser outlook of an alert first grader who'd discovered the alphabet in a school where Ecclesiastes is the primer—life is futility, a deeply terrible experience, but the really serious thing is reading.

Our attitudes are important! In fact, they are more important than our actions, because they are the foundation upon which our actions are built.

The bad can be found in anything. It is so much easier to find than the good.

One can very agreeably ignore a rain by walking in it. In fact it is when one allows a rain to prevent one from walking in it that one is failing to ignore it. Surely by saying, dear me, I will get soaked through and through if I walk in this rain, for instance, one is in no way ignoring the rain.

It was nice to find out, then, that if one is characterologically incapable of not being a total fuckface, science has not shown you will die any sooner . People might just be gladder when you eventually do.

millennialist thought was a cluster of religious and secular ideas forged into a kind of national creed. In its more hopeful mode, it held that Christ would have a Second Coming in the "new Israel" of America, or at least that the country possessed a mission as a "redeemer nation" destined to perform a special role in history. Millennialism was an outlook on history, a disposition about