Quotes About Outlook

You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing - It just indicates your state of mind!

Everything in your story world has one of three basic meanings to each character: good, bad, or neutral.

Are you a Tigger or an Eyore?

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

Each of us must decide: Am I a fun-loving Tigger or am I a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

It's like if you have a bad day and you don't change your mindset, even if you go to buy bread at the supermarket, like, everything is so bad. It happens. I'm very negative. You have to change it.

My spirituality and my beliefs are way beyond any superstition - I'm not a conformist - and I do have a scientific outlook towards religion. Our body is made up of different elements, and certain stones help align these elements.

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.

I was playing surf music with my band when a girlfriend of mine who had come from Los Angeles took me to a James Brown concert. That show really changed my whole outlook and thought processes, especially about music and different cultures.

I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.

There's no way to tell bad news from good as it's happening. We'll find out which the moment we realize, long-term, it's all good.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It.

places are the same unless your mind changes. There's no magic place to get your mind right. If you feel like shit, everything you see looks like shit. I know that.

Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.

In a low state of mind, everything seems really bad and worse than it probably is.

In low moods we lose our perspective and everything seems urgent. We completely forget that when we are in a good mood, everything seems so much better.