Quotes About Attitude

Most see excellence as some grand aspiration. Wrong. Dead wrong. My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!

Cuando empiezas en algo podemos estar seguros de varias realidades fundamentales: 1) No eres ni de cerca tan bueno ni tan importante como crees; 2) Tienes una actitud que debes reajustar; 3) La mayoría de lo que crees que sabes o la mayoría de lo que aprendiste en los libros o en las aulas está obsoleto o equivocado.

The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it.

The worst really wasn't that bad.

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.

Esto no significa ver los problemas, aceptarlos y dejar que degeneren.

It's easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you're not redlining, you're not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process.

Even when everything is going terribly, and I have no reason to be confident, I just decide to be.

Es más bien una convicción: la vida siempre sucede para nosotros, no a nosotros. De ti depende que encuentres sus ventajas. Si lo haces, la vida es fabulosa.»

Cynicism is a disease that robs people of the gift of life.

We discourage failure and by doing so we subtly discourage success.

Service for the Right Reasons: To Save the Whales, or Kill Them and Feed the Children? Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. —OSCAR WILDE

It's really how you look at it, and the way you look at it is so important. If you can have a positive attitude,

Accept reality, but focus on the solution. Take that issue, take that setback, take that problem, and turn it into something good. Go forward. And, if you are part of a team, that attitude will spread throughout.

The moment I start one of these three behaviors—blaming, complaining, or gossiping—I become negative. It is a sign of avoiding what I am responsible for: my life.

Life doesn't have to be so damn hard. It really doesn't. Most people, my past self included, have spent too much time convincing themselves that life has to be hard, a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

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

When you complain, nobody wants to help you,

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.

Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn't. And that's all right, too.

The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.

I have been called an irrepressible optimist. The opposite of an irrepressible optimist is a repressive pessimist

Granting that you have more money than others, and that you don't deserve such wealth—but stopping there—allows you to settle the score by paying your taxes and advocating more redistribution. This reductive attitude toward inequality has the added comfort of justifying nasty judgments about the other side.