Top 100 Quotes About Half Full
#2. I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.
Janet Evanovich
#3. After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.
William B. Irvine
#4. 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.
Morris Chestnut
#5. You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.
Richard Paul Evans
#6. He was a glass half full kind of person and she was ... what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.
Erin McCarthy
#7. You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.
Jason Aldean
#8. [My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.
Sarah Winman
#9. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
Jon Bon Jovi
#10. My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.
Kliff Kingsbury
#11. The cup is half full, sunshine and flowers and I try to act like I agree, but really I'm pissed someone dumped out half of my drink.
Nyrae Dawn
#12. One thinks of lard as a kind of pure high saturated fat but it is only 41 % saturated, while it is mostly (47 %) MUFA, predominantly oleic acid, the main fat in olive oil. So it is a question of whether you think that lard is half full of SFA or half empty.
Richard David Feinman
#13. 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.
George Carlin
#14. I will allow others to be there for me. I will share my feelings. I'm not allowed to fake it! I will view the world as a positive place. The cup is half full, not half empty.
Ronnie Sellers
#15. Optimists see the glass as half full.
Pessimists see the glass as half empty.
Experiential trainers see the whole glass and its context.
Bogdan Vaida
#16. Some people look at a glass and see it as half-full. Others look at a glass and call it a dragon.
Jon Stewart
#17. You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?
Rachel Caine
#18. My kids and I figured out that there's a third kind of person, and I don't know what you call them, but it's somebody who sees that the glass is always full because it's half full with water and half full with nothing, so that's the third kind of person. I don't know what it is.
Louis C.K.
#20. I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'
Nancy Meyers
#21. i'm a realist, miss randall. if you show me a glass, i see it as neither half-empty nor half-full. i see enough water to drown a man, if i can find a way to put it in his lungs.
D.L. Snell
#22. Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.
Eleanor Smeal
#23. Pardon me for finding the glass half full.
Rupert Giles
#24. He isn't bashful, but an asshole who'd sooner smash his glass because it was half full.
Gordon P. Bois
#25. My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
Abraham Verghese
#26. This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.
Diane Keaton
#27. I see the glass half full ... but of poison.
Woody Allen
#28. I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What's the difference? Eventually it'll end up empty and in the trash.
Cyndi Goodgame
#29. Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws ...
Lauren Aquilina
#30. 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.
George Carlin
#31. Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue.
T.F. Hodge
#32. If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
Peter Drucker
#33. I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.
Peter McWilliams
#34. I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.
Darynda Jones
#35. Some say the glass is half full and blush,
Some say it's half empty and sink,
I feel you are in the midst of,
reaching out for another awesome drink!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#36. 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!!!
Maya Angelou
#37. It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
Joey Comeau
#38. Call it "the New Year's resolution effect" - it's why gyms that were crowded in January are only half full in July and why so many slightly used guitars are available on Craigslist. So
Anders Ericsson
#39. Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.
Gwyneth Lewis
#40. 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.
James Alan Gardner
#41. I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.
John Niven
#42. Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
Nora Roberts
#43. Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.
Mark Cuban
#44. This is the kind of writer who gets the ball rolling in his search for the holy grail, but finds that it's neither magic bullet nor a slam dunk, so he rolls with the punches and lets the chips fall where they may while seeing the glass as half-full, which is easier said than done.
Steven Pinker
#45. A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.
Wes Fesler
#46. The glass is neither half full or half empty but merely too large for the contents.
Chris Byrd
#47. I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.
John Key
#48. Glass half empty, glass half full, glass too small?
David Mitchell
#49. Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.
Jaycee Dugard
#50. I tend to think the good outweighs the bad. Then again, I try to be a glass-half-full person. Although I stand by my theory that if you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid in your glass, you are either a cliche or an alcoholic.
Caprice Crane
#51. I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.
Prabal Gurung
#52. My life is only half full
When I receive.
My heart is completely full
Only when I give.
Sri Chinmoy
#53. It would probably strip my flesh while giving me vocabulary lessons. I'd be dead but smarter. How's that for glass half full?
A&E Kirk
#54. I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.
Sarah McLachlan
#55. Whether the glass seems half full or half empty depends on how thirsty you are.
Marty Rubin
#56. My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.
Suzanne Brockmann
#57. Half full or half empty, just be thankful if your glass has anything in it at all.
D.E. Sievers
#58. I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.
Alli Simpson
#59. I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
Hamilton Jordan
#60. There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play ... a bar that's half full.
Julian Casablancas
#61. Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
Bill Cosby
#62. I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.
Lawrence Fagg
#63. It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.
Terry Pratchett
#64. Walker liked to joke that, together, he and his wife owned the entire glass. He took the half-full part, while she usually claimed the empty half.
Alan Orloff
#65. I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.
Will Ferrell
#66. Whether your glass is half full or half empty there's still room for more wine.
Trish Jackson
#67. There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.
Goldie Hawn
#68. Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
David Kaufman
#69. A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
Josiah Stamp
#70. I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"
Damon Lindelof
#71. Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces
Kevin Jared Hosein
#72. We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.
Brian Roberts
#73. There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.
Scott Stossel
#74. I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.
Ana Monnar
#75. Looking at the glass half full seems to help others do the same and help fill their glasses too.
Emilyann Girdner
#76. With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
Rachel Johnson
#77. Nearly half full, seating about two hundred students. The room was
Patrick Rothfuss
#78. Time does have a way of softening most things. Anger, hate, and even loss are often diluted by the passage of time. And memories, well they become more precious as days go by . . . until one day the cup that seemed half-empty, incredibly, becomes half-full.
Cynthia Mock Burroughs
#79. I'm a lawyer. Pessimists see a glass half-empty; optimists see a glass half-full. Lawyers see a glass containing possible carcinogenic materials without a warning label. Skepticism is coded in our DNA.
Naima Simone
#80. People who argue whether the glass is half empty or half full are probably not thirsty.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#81. Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.
Larry Winget
#82. We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.
Steve King
#83. The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks.
Randall Munroe
#84. The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so
Guy De Maupassant
#85. Of course, to a true geek, the glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it currently needs to be, though a reasonable reserve margin is not a bad thing to have ready, just in case.
David S. Platt
#86. What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regardless of how full the glass is, it's filled with acid, and you'll burn your face off.
T.J. Klune
#87. Some people see a glass as half empty; some see it as half full. I put the glass in a cupboard and forget it's there. You get my point?
Kristin Hannah
#88. Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.
Chris Kuzneski
#89. The cup is both half full and half empty; it has never been one or the other. Stop obsessing over the trivial cup and drink the medicine you've been given.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#90. The optimist says, "The glass is half full."
The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty."
The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
That makes it clear as glass.
Thomas Cathcart
#91. 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.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#92. 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.
Louis Zamperini
#93. I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.
Mark Cuban
#94. For you the cup isn't half full or half empty, you're always topping it up.
Rowena Cory Daniells
#95. Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#96. If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
Brad Thor
#97. To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.
Mary Alice Monroe
#98. 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
#99. Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.
Dick Vitale
#100. Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.
Mattie Stepanek
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