Half Empty Quotes - Page 2

• I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

  Peter McWilliams

  Glasses, Optimism, Worry

  Peter McWilliams (1995). “Love 101: to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

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• To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.

  Yves Behar

  Emotional, Glasses, Design

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• I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.

  Ladyhawke

  Thinking, Empty Rooms, What If

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

  Dick Cavett

  Wise, Glasses, Half

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.15, Macmillan

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• I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Glasses, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.

  David Ogilvy

  Mean, Smell, Atmosphere

  "Ogilvy on Advertising". Book by David Ogilvy, p. 172, 1983.

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• The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

  Grace Hopper

  Glasses, Needs, Half

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• Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

  Nora Roberts

  Glasses, Differences, Doe

  Nora Roberts (2006). “Angels Fall”, p.118, Penguin

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• Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Glasses, Looks, Each Day

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• Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

  Hesiod

  Generosity, Done, Half

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• I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

  Damon Lindelof

  Glasses, Half, Empty

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.

  Maria Bamford

  Children, Half, Cups

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• people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big

  Sean Lock

  People, Church, Half

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• This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty

  Ravi Shastri

  Feelings, Surprising, Half

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• If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.

  Steve Sailer

  Real, Differences, Glasses

  "A Short, Stylized Dialogue On Epigenetics". www.vdare.com. October 26, 2012.

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• I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvahs, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat.

  Harpo Marx

  Depressing, Stars, Blow

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

  James Alan Gardner

  Glasses, Toxic, Half

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• This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

  Emily Giffin

  Glasses, Half, Empty

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

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• 99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.

  Morris Chestnut

  Glasses, People, Perfect

  "Morris Chestnut ‘Not Easily Broken’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 30, 2009.

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• Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

  Bob Lewis

  Glasses, Air, Water

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• Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Lying, Fire

  John Hagee's "The Fish Gate" sermon, September 2, 2007.

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• If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Glasses, Perception

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.116, Routledge

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• I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

  Pauly Shore

  Thinking, Looks, Half

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2017

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• Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Humor, Thinking

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• I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

  Bill Cosby

  Drinking, Grandmother, Glasses

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