Quotes About Attitude

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Much of the time, we cannot control what happens to us. But we can always control how we respond to what happens to us. If we cannot choose to be lucky, to be talented, to be loved, we can choose to be grateful, to be content with who we are and what we have, and to act accordingly.

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

Finally this treatment will dissipate it. Pessimism,

I am an optimist, but I am an optimist who carries a raincoat.

Marie always had a headache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.

Whatever the situation and however disheartening it may be, it is a great hour when a man ceases adopting difficulties as an excuse for despondency and tackles himself as the real problem. No mood need be his master.

We may seek to distance ourselves from bullshit, but we are more likely to turn away from it with an impatient or irritated shrug than with the sense of violation or outrage that lies often inspire. The problem of understanding why our attitude towards bullshit is generally more benign than our attitude toward lying is an important one...

Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

If you can't dance then you are a loser.

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.' - Martina Navratilova

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it. You're making fun out of it.

It's my perspective: gloom and doom.