Quotes About Attitude

If you ran into an asshole in the morning you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.

Age doesn't matter: an open mind does.

Happiness is a choice you make and a skill you develop.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway." Either way, nothing happens. —YVON CHOUINARD,7 founder of Patagonia

The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.

People are nicer than they look, but you have to go first. This made me think of a line from fictional character Raylan Givens in the TV series Justified: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." I will often write "GO FIRST" in my morning journal as a daily prompt.

No estoy programado para la felicidad», la cual reemplacé por: «La felicidad es mi estado natural».

Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.

Students should go to college with an open mind. I advise them to ignore all the absolutism around them, both in terms of ideas and people. When they're told that some people or ideas are wrong, hateful, or offensive, a light bulb should go off in their heads. That is the moment their curiosity should be piqued to find out for themselves whether it is indeed a "bad" thing. Adopting an attitude of critical thinking is most crucial in learning anything.

you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

2. El 10 por ciento de la gente encontrará una manera de tomárselo todo como algo personal. Cuenta con ello y trátalo desde una perspectiva matemática.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway." Either way, nothing happens.

Treadmills kill your spirit.

When you complain, nobody wants to help you,' and it's the simplest thing and so plainly spoken. Only he could really say that brutal, honest truth, but it's true, right? If you spend your time focusing on the things that are wrong, and that's what you express and project to people you know, you don't become a source of growth for people, you become a source of destruction for people. That draws more destructiveness.

What is the opposite of happiness? Sadness? No.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."—Henry David Thoreau

I believe I'm below average. It's a deliberate, cultivated belief to compensate for our tendency to think we're above average.

El sufrimiento procede de tres patrones de pensamiento: pérdida, menos, nunca.»

Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it's learning how to dance in the rain

When you are just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) you have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

La frustración es una cuestión de expectativas.»

You Want to Be Taken Seriously? Then Take Things Seriously

2—10% of people will find a way to take anything personally. Expect it and treat it as math.