Quotes About Outlook

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Your attitude determines your altitude

My own experience with people confirms the point Frankl makes—that the highest of the three values is attitudinal, in the paradigm or reframing sense. In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.

La gente reactiva suele verse afectada por el medio ambiente. Si el clima es agradable, se sienten bien. Si no lo es, su actitud y desempeño se modifican. La gente proactiva lleva el buen clima consigo. Si afuera llueve o sale el sol, para ellos no hay diferencia alguna.7

The way we see things is the source of the way we think and the way we act.

The power of the personal mission statement lies in your vision and in a commitment to that vision, that purpose, and those principle-centered values. They will control your decisions, determine your outlook, and provide the direction for your future.

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course

It taught me that we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the

It taught me that we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others. *

You see the young lady; I see the old woman. We're both looking at the same picture, and both of us are right. We see the same black lines, the same white spaces. But we interpret them differently because we've been conditioned to interpret them differently.

But as proactive people, we can carry our own physical or social weather with us.

You might work on your attitude—you could think more positively. You still wouldn't get to the right place, but perhaps you wouldn't care. Your attitude would be so positive, you'd be happy wherever you were.

In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects

our attitudes and behaviors grow out of those assumptions. The way we see things is the source of the way we think and the way we act.

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

Our self-motivation suffers most from how we choose to see the circumstances in our lives. That's because we don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Psychologists have long known that people tend to see their own lives through rose-colored glasses: they think they're less likely than the average person to become the victim of a divorce, layoff, accident, illness, or crime. But change the question from the people's lives to their society, and they transform from Pollyanna to Eeyore.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

Certain people just have a look about them—you can spot them here and there, at gas stations and in checkout lines—like they fully expect to have a shitty day, and if it hasn't happened yet, by golly, they'll make sure they're disappointed before the sun goes down.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.