Charles William Eliot Quotes

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.

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

In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

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)

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

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.

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges, messes and problems, it will show up that way. If, on the other hand, you see it as a continuing flow of good fortune, one good thing after another, that is what you will encounter.

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

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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

It's all in the mind, you know.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

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

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

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.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.