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This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty -- Ravi Shastri
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
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer. -- Sherman Alexie
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
...she was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more... -- Joanne Fluke
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
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
people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big -- Sean Lock
To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty. -- Eddie Money
Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty. -- Maria Bamford
I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle -- Ellen DeGeneres
I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full. -- Nigahiga
A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill. -- Mike Royko
People who argue whether the glass is half empty or half full are probably not thirsty. -- Ljupka Cvetanova
Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking. -- Bill Cosby
If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven't been holding the right glass -- Richard Branson
I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. -- Rosie Perez
The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled. -- Jodi Picoult
Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it. -- Nora Roberts
Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws... -- Lauren Aquilina
...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way. -- Mattie Stepanek
I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly. -- Dick Cavett
The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. -- Janeane Garofalo
It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw. -- Joey Comeau
If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities. -- Peter Drucker
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
The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission -- Grace Hopper
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
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
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
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful you have a glass - your the only person that can decide what's in it. -- Gurbaksh Chahal
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
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
This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated. -- Emily Giffin
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
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. -- Alan K. Simpson
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
Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- Bob Lewis
Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty. -- John Hagee
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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
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
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
It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be. -- Mark Cuban
I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty. -- Pauly Shore
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
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
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) -- Stephen Colbert
We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England. -- Phil Collen
As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty. -- John Francis Daley
At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place. -- Catherine Tate
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
But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me. -- Maynard James Keenan
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. -- Janeane Garofalo
I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites. -- Drew Carey
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other. -- Daniel Clowes
Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach. -- James Lind
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno. -- Italo Calvino
Don't bother. The glass is half-empty. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?" -- Damon Lindelof
A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love. -- Wes Fesler
You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing. -- Kanye West
This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full. -- Diane Keaton
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty? -- Oliver Stone
At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place. -- Catherine Tate
To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing. -- Mary Alice Monroe
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink -- Ville Valo
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
If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. -- Oscar Wilde
Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs. -- Hesiod
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
I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis. -- Ladyhawke
I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty. -- Bruce Bartlett

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