Ask What You Can Do Instead

"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


"Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending."

-- Barbara Holland


"Life is too short and too hard and too serious not to be humorous about it. We look for attitudes, people with a sense of humor who don’t take themselves too seriously. We’ll train you on whatever it is you have to do, but the one thing Southwest cannot change in people is inherent attitudes."

-- Herb Kelleher, co-founder of Southwest Airlines


"I don't do a lot of wishful thinking. I'm a dreamer, but I'm a practical dreamer."

-- Kemmons Wilson, founder of Holiday Inn