Half Full Quotes - Page 3

I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

Maya Angelou

Glasses, Half Empty, Negative

Source: blues.gr

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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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We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

Steve King

Glasses, America, Half

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You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.

Jason Aldean

Night, Thinking, Play

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The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Boyle Roche

Half, Cups, Misery

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When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

Margaret Atwood

Inspirational, Graduation, Art

"Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

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It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful you have a glass - your the only person that can decide what's in it.

Gurbaksh Chahal

Grateful, Glasses, Half

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My life is only half full
When I receive.
My heart is completely full
Only when I give.

Sri Chinmoy

Heart, Giving, Half

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My kids and I figured out that there’s a third kind of person, and I don’t know what you call them, but it’s somebody who sees that the glass is always full because it’s half full with water and half full with nothing, so that’s the third kind of person. I don’t know what it is.

Louis C. K.

Kids, Glasses, Water

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My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

Sherry Lansing

Mother, Thinking, Glasses

Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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I certainly wished I hadn't stressed quite as much or had such insecurity at times. I wish I had trusted my instincts on some occasions when I didn't and I wish I had listened to better advice when I didn't. But overall, I have to look at the glass as half full and acknowledge that I am all of the moments of my life, the good and the not so good.

Kylie Minogue

Glasses, Advice, Insecurity

Source: www.smh.com.au

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As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a lot of our fellow citizens have.

Margaret Hoover

Glasses, Appreciate, Understanding

Source: www.npr.org

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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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A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.

Wes Fesler

Heart, Thankfulness, Half

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Oscar Wilde

Glasses, Optimism, Needs

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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

Bill Walton

Basketball, Years, Nba

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I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.

Prabal Gurung

Glasses, Guy, Roles

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There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

Goldie Hawn

Inspirational, Wise, Grateful

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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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If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

Brad Thor

Glasses, Half Empty, Doe

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People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

Louis Zamperini

Believe, Glasses, People

Louis Zamperini, David Rensin (2014). “Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life”, p.6, Harper Collins

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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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Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"

David Kaufman

Glasses, Asking, Half

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I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

Mark Cuban

Inspirational, Glasses, Water

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Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

George W. Bush

Glasses, Looks, Half

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