Quotes About Outlook

We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme."

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

Are you long because you are bullish or bullish because you are long?

in their lives, becoming ever-more beaten down, will often be heard to say, "I knew that was going to happen." On the other hand, the winners in every arena of life seem to continue to win time after time and expect it as their due. As we go about our daily

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

It's hard living with eternal optimists. No matter how many times life craps on them, they wipe it off their faces and smile. I seem to be the only one who has accepted the truth: there is nothing around that corner but more crap.

If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.

but Reba taught me to be grateful no matter what. I looked up at the blue sky.

How does your attitude affect your energy level?

she was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more...

I learnt a long time back to accept whatever comes my way. Best savor the good and bear up under the bad. There ain't no changin' none of it.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.

We behave according to what we bring to the occasion." Our beliefs affect how we process all new things, "whether the 'thing' is a football game, a presidential candidate, Communism, or spinach.

An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy.

I've always believed that how you look is a self-fulfilling prophecy: When you wake up, get dressed and look in the mirror, if you think you look good, most likely you will.

There's pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives.