Quotes About Outlook

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

I'm not really a negative thinker.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

Everyone thinks I'm a nice guy, which is not a bad way to be perceived.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

Just like it's not healthy to think overly negative thoughts, exaggeratedly positive thoughts can be equally detrimental. If you overestimate how much of a positive impact a particular change will have on your life, you may end up feeling disappointed when reality doesn't live up to your fantasy.

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

Look at the bigger picture.

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.

I was in my late twenties then, and my outlook on life was still quite romantic; the cynicism that was to come with the thirties had not yet set in.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

You can decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world. Or you can decide that your world is always going to be a cold, dark place.

Your vision makes your world. If you see the world as a happy, loving place, then that's where you're going to live. But if you see the world as a messed up, negative, and dangerous place, then that will be your reality.

Anytime things were going right for you, the future of the world seemed bright. Anytime they were going wrong, the imminent collapse of civilization was at hand. Can't you see how thoroughly you projected your own subjective vision of reality on the world?

Might as well ask the once-popular Magic 8-Ball something. It got "Outlook not so good" right. I don't know if anyone ever asked it about Internet Explorer. 

Çünkü az?nl?kta kalanlar, çok olanlara nedense tepeden bakarlar.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them, which you can erase right now

After a certain point, the ravages of experience reverse themselves; we put on innocence with advancing age, at least in the minds of others.

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.