Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

I see the glass half full...but of poison.

I'm an eternal optimist.

No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

I try to look at things in a positive way. If someone says something negative to me, I'll just turn it around into a positive.

I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

If you take a negative, turn it inside out, it's still a negative. You're just revealing the ugly inside of negative so I say keep it as is.

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

Everyday is a good day, just some days are better

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.