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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.

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

    Glasses   Half  
  • 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.

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

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

    Half  
  • The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

    Glasses   Half  
  • 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.

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

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

    Glasses   Doe  
    Nora Roberts (2006). “Angels Fall”, p.118, Penguin
  • To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.

    Glasses   Half  
    Mary Alice Monroe (2017). “Girl in the Mirror”, p.135, MIRA
  • Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami
  • I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

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

    Glasses   Half  
    Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.15, Macmillan
  • There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

  • 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!!!

    Source: blues.gr
  • It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be.

    Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.88, Diversion Books
  • Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink

    Glasses   Half  
  • 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.

    Glasses   Water  
  • 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.

    Mean  
    "Ogilvy on Advertising". Book by David Ogilvy, p. 172, 1983.
  • Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

  • Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

  • 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.

    Glasses   Half   Empty  
    Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan
  • Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside. "The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual." "Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle." "Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy." "Also known as the good kind," he countered. Abby huffed.

  • A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

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

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

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

  • The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • 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.

    Glasses   Half  
  • 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.

    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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