James Mirrlees Quotes

When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Bad situations can always get worse.

Of course I expect to be booed. People always have to find the bad guy, and for some reason, the look on my face or something, people just want to boo me. That's fine.

You know that once you're successful, there's going to be good things and bad things that people say and, honestly, to me it doesn't really matter.

I believe I had an unfair reputation. If people think I was a bad kid, I was a bad kid to them. But people close to me know I'm not.

The first thing, the first element of a story that people hear, they believe it. Whether it's right or wrong.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success.

Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

One who was abhorred by all in prosperity is adored by all in adversity.