Rory Cochrane Quotes

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

I make sure I cut down the negative thoughts and accept the reality there is. If it is going good, it is good.

I try to dwell on the positive and not dwell on the negative as much as I can.

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

I think the value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear. I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. That is not the -- I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

I always focus on the negatives.

Why choose to be negative when you don't have to?

I hope that others can turn their negative thoughts into positive thoughts and improve their own lives.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.