Quotes About Outlook

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

This preference makes the difference between the judging people, who order their lives, and the perceptive people, who just live them. Both attitudes have merit.

You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

If we think effectively and productively about growing older, the odds are good that we'll never have to grow old.

As long as the sun's shining, shit can't be that bad.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

If you're always thinking pessimistic thoughts, pessimism will taint your mind. You will never be able to be happy.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.

New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don't keep calendars. Calendars are tools for managing the future, and in New Orleans the future doesn't exist.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

events that challenge our optimistic beliefs can sometimes make us more rather than less optimistic.

Being pessimistic is almost always a recipe for low levels of what psychologists call "subjective well-being." It's also a detriment in most professions. But as Martin Seligman has written, "There is one glaring exception: pessimists do better at law.

I am best viewed from a distance.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

That's my viewpoint; I just tackle the world, whatever comes at me.

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.