Quotes About Outlook

I don't hope," he answered, eyes on her. "I never hope. I just live in gratitude for what comes.

Although they both survived this campaign more or less unscathed, they suffered the humiliating experience of having to make self-criticism of their family background, their education abroad, and their outlook on life as reflected in Henry's architectural designs and in their teaching methods.

Art has the provinces in its blood. Art is provincial in principle, preserving for itself a naive, external, astonished and envious outlook.

If you're sunny inside, you never have to worry about the weather.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects.

Niemand weiß wirklich genug um ein Pessimist zu sein.

The control center of your life is your attitude.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs.

Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including—most significantly—how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it.

impotence. At the same time the ironists always have a world outlook that they proclaim triumphantly, though if one starts badgering and questioning them about the details, it turns out to consist of nothing but trivia and banalities.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday.

Do you see a problem in every opportunity or an opportunity in every problem?

A bad attitude is like a dirty diaper, life stinks until its changed.

It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.

A positive attitude is more important than skills.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Murphy was an optimist.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

As we see it, the whole outlook brought about by the scientific revolution should have been--must be--a phase, only, of the evolution of consciousness. An absolutely indispensable phase, but a passing one. What is riveting it on to us and preventing us from superseding it, because it prevents us from even imaging any other kind of consciousness, is precisely this error of projecting it back into the past.

So always look for the silver liningAnd try to find the sunny side of life.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.