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.
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.
To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.
I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.
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?
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.
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.'
I like to look at the glass half full.
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.