Is the glass half empty or half full?
"Is the glass half empty or half full?" is a proverbial phrase, used rhetorically to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for pessimism (half-empty) or optimism (half full), but there are other view points too, like realism (if poured out, half empty; if filled up, half full, but it is only point of view), or as a litmus test to simply determine an individual's worldview. The purpose of the question is to demonstrate that a situation may be seen in different ways depending on one's point of view.[1]
Is the glass half empty or half full?
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- Stephanie Stokes Oliver (2001-11-27). Seven Soulful Secrets for Finding Your Purpose and Minding Your Mission. Crown Publishing Group. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-385-48767-2. Retrieved 2013-08-07.
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