Tom Shadyac Quotes

Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

Things never are as bad as they seem.

I feel like having a positive attitude in life is going to change the world. If we could all have a good attitude, we could really make a change.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!"

I believe our world desperately needs Good News.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

I have the faith that even at my lowest points, there will come a silver lining through faith.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.

You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.