37+ Glass Is Always Half Full Quotes. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. unknown my mum was always like that: The engineer thinks the glass is twice as big as it needs to be" 🙂 trina says august 19, 2009 at 1:09 pm How to be and find the best I always see the glass half full. The pessimist thinks the glass is half empty; If we don't have hope and faith, we have nothing. The cup of ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. I always look at things half full and definitely see a change in how things are going as far as black actresses and their opportunities. To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.