Quotes About Attitude

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

If somebody tells us it's rubbish, then our attitude is that the person's misguided, rather than that we are rubbish.

Jane did believe she was all that,

I'm a bit farther ahead in the day," Simon said negatively. "But a Dry Sack on the rocks would go down nicely.

That, he said, was the way he stayed young—by refusing to take anything quite as seriously as he should have done.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

I've been to livelier funerals," grumbled Herb.

Will you treat people who make you miserable, as prison guards, or travel agents?

up. "The thing you have to understand about people," he says, "is that most of them suck, and you don't want to be like them anyway.

Fenders are for cars. Leslie West Mountain

We're all bozos on the bus, so we might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life.

Marx championed technical progress and his attitude was strongly Eurocentric, including a lack of interest in the problems of underdeveloped countries.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

You can't just decide to be happy." "No, you can't. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want?

Well, he wouldn't get fooled again. He wouldn't give anybody the chance. Quentin felt a new attitude of detachment descend on him. His molten anger and grief were cooling into a glossy protective coating, a hard transparent lacquer of uncaring. He felt how infinitely safer and more sound this attitude was. The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything.

But not even the end of the world was going to stop Janet from being a bitch. It was the principle of the thing.

The situation wasn't ideal. But it was what she had to work with, so she would work with it. She was a tough one,

He was obviously one of those people who felt at home in the world–he was naturally buoyant, where Quentin felt like he had to dog-paddle constantly, exhaustingly, humiliatingly, just to get one sip of air.

You can't just decide to be happy." "No, you can't. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable.

The ones who go around knocking on doors and looking for clues never find the thing, the Grail or whatever it is. It's more a matter of having the right attitude.

His molten anger and grief were cooling into a glossy protective coating, a hard transparent lacquer of uncaring. If he couldn't go back, he would just have to do things differently going forward. He felt how infinitely safer and more sound this attitude was. The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything.