Quotes About Outlooks

#1. The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them

Albert Bandura

#2. Whenever unexamined outlooks come to the surface, surprising things can happen.

Barnet Bain

#3. Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.

Paul Pearsall

#4. We don't permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for moral outlooks. Don't tread on us and we won't on you. We're a tolerant, liberty-loving bunch, we Wolfes.

James Carlos Blake

#5. She'd exchanged her dreams of her parents for the dogma of her instructors, but neither of those outlooks were innately her own.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

Jennifer Garner

#7. 'Crucible' was going to be a 'passing of the torch' story. So something that was big enough to be worthy of that, that could show these characters being changed - along with their respective outlooks about life, the galaxy, and the Force - was Mortis.

Troy Denning

#8. A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks.

Elisabeth Elliot

#9. With action experience grows, with travel outlooks grow, and with reflections wisdom grows.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy.

Anthony Kiedis

#11. The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

Carroll Quigley

#12. The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

Rajeev Kurapati

#13. Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.

Scott Walker

#14. Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.

Monica Crowley

#15. The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.

John Darnielle

#16. Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

Alexa Hampton

#17. The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Kim Edwards

#18. Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

Erik Parker

#19. We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

Robert Kennedy

#20. The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour

Kofi Annan

#21. We ignore outlooks and forecasts ... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.

Martin J. Whitman

#22. The man hates your guts more than Stryker does. You'll be lucky if he doesn't pull your spine out through your nostrils. (Tory)
Nice to have Miss Merry Sunshine back again. Any other Eeyore outlooks you'd like to share? (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. Understanding men or ideas or movements, or the outlooks of individuals or groups, is not reducible to a sociological classification into types of behaviour with predictions based on scientific experiment and carefully tabulated statistics of observations.

Isaiah Berlin

#24. Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Charles Eames

#25. Right." He smiled bitterly. "Well, look around. Just look. Have you ever considered the possibility that God might be insane?

Robert McCammon

#26. You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

Lorrie Moore

#27. You worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business.

Terry Pratchett

#28. Governments should be role models of leadership and improve the utilization of ICT in all the governmental departments in order to improve the efficiency of governmental services and motivate ICT industries.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#29. Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Eminem

#30. If your faith is so shaky that it can be undermined by books that challenge it, then something is rotten at the core.

Rysa Walker