Outlook Quotes - Page 3

• Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

  Michael Gove

  Sympathy, Children, Empathy

  "Michael Gove proposes teaching foreign languages from age five" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

  Arthur Lynch

  Sleep, Optimism, People

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• I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

  Eric Cantor

  People, Hopeful, Cost

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• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  Caleb Carr

  Years, Humanity, Mountain

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• Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure enough much is yet unknown, but I do not think that it will be possible to discover anything easily nowadays that would lead us to revise our entire outlook as radically as was possible in the days when telescopes and microscopes were still new.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Regret, Thinking, Telescopes

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• Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.

  Edmund Gosse

  Thinking, Errors, Parent

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• Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Light, Evil

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.300, University of Virginia Press

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• We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Outlook On Life, Needs

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Believe, Thinking, Optimism

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• So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.

  Roy Barnes

  Georgia, Today, Brighter

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• Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Father, Squirrels, Eagles

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Standing Out: Being Real in an Unreal World”, Multnomah

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• According to a new UN report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad, when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet.

  Jay Leno

  Energy, Global Warming, Environment

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• By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mindset of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Infidel: My Life". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2007.

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• If you witness (the problems in the world), your outlook on life will change. You will understand how fortunate and well-off you are, (…). You will understand that you are so safe from the risk of air raids and landmines.

  Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

  Air, Outlook On Life, Risk

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• It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

  Abigail Spencer

  Ambition, Careers, Goal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

  Joseph Stalin

  Philosophical, World, Materialism

  Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”

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• I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

  Saif Ali Khan

  Father, Men, Thinking

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• If you’re healthy all around, you’ll feel better, and if you feel better, you’ll have a more positive outlook. It’s all connected.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Feel Better, Healthy, Positive Outlook

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• What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other; each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.

  C. Wright Mills

  Struggle, Moving, Circles

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• . . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Thinking, Needs, Way

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Whose Body?”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

  James Keller

  Courage, Cities, Individuality

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• So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

  Duncan Sheik

  Happiness, Creativity, Impact

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• We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.

  Akbar Ganji

  Talking, Nuclear Disarmament, Should

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• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Airplane, Light, Climbing

  Rudolf Arnheim (2009). “The Dynamics of Architectural Form”, p.33, Univ of California Press

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• Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is closed to other beauties and the complexities of character and world.

  Gwee Li Sui

  Character, Literature, World

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