Positivism
POSITIVISM:
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
POSITIVISM:
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
POSITIVISM:
Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right.
POSITIVISM:
It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.
POSITIVISM:
The body manifests what the mind harbors.
POSITIVISM:
Optimism is an intellectual choice.
POSITIVISM:
Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?
POSITIVISM:
On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.
POSITIVISM:
In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
POSITIVISM:
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
POSITIVISM:
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
POSITIVISM:
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
POSITIVISM:
Knock the t off the can't.