Quotes About Outlook

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Some people could look at a mud-puddle and see an ocean with ships. But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps.

I have been around football all my life, and it doesn't happen. It never enters my mind. I don't think, 'Oh, what's going to happen to me at the end of the season?' Whatever happens to me, happens.

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

Taxidermia. Art forms come in many ways, but nothing conveys a psychopathic outlook more then stuffing your dead pet.

Nothing coats the world bad or good, but thinking makes it so.

Under a sky the color of judgment

The glass is always half full even when it's upside down.

The rain had not started falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.

L.A., and they changed my whole outlook on doing time. There was this one guy in particular; his name was Rafik. He'd known me since I was in high school. He'd been a hustler, a player, a stone-cold street dude just like me. But in prison he became a Muslim. I always saw him walking around with college books. I couldn't believe

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Hay un dicho que afirma que, según la mentalidad de una persona, incluso un ángel podría parecerle un demonio.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but also on your eyes so as to change your outlook. But wait a minute. No, I do not propose to operate at all. I myself cannot do anything of the sort. I am just mildly suggesting that you are perhaps dead, and perhaps blind, leaving you to think the matter over for yourself. If an operation is to be performed it must be performed by God Himself.

You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day.

YOU CANNOT CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, BUT YOU CAN CONTROL HOW YOU FRAME IT.

As Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg said in 2017, "Optimists tend to be successful, and pessimists tend to be right. . . . If you think that something's going to be terrible and it's going to fail, then you're going to look for the data points that prove you right. And you'll find them. That's what pessimists do. . . . But if you think that something is possible, then you're going to try to find a way to make it work.

What difference does a little rain matter, since you'll be getting wet anyhow?

How else can hopes go but up?

Looks Like Tacoma Down There

If talent is a natural aptitude for creation with an outlook on life peculiar to oneself, then genius is to have an outlook on life, peculiar to oneself, which yet appeals to everybody. Talent is for oneself and a few others, but genius is universal.

I find pleasure in cynicism, the habit is growing. Let it grow, it is a fine protection against the world.

It isn't what happens to you that matters, it's how you take it.

In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.