Quotes About Attitude

Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried up. No water. The Hopi, and the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what's beyond human power to change, and then to change the human's attitude to be content with the inevitable." - Tony Hillerman, Sacred Clowns, 1993

My dad taught us that being late is really rude. It tells the other person you think you're more important than they are.

Do your best and forget the rest.

best" means showing up and doing your best without being attached to the outcome.

There's nothing wrong with failing. In fact, failure needs a new name. "Failure" should be renamed "awesome." Everyone loves awesome.

Today, did I do my best and forget the rest?

They say that about 3 percent of the people on Earth live in bliss. So what the hell are the other 97 percent doing?

Do your best" means showing up and doing your best without being attached to the outcome. It means reality is not something you can manipulate. "Forget the rest" means you don't let the same things that used to get in your way, get in your way.

A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

As it turns out, the final frontier of freedom is the freedom to choose one's attitude, and in the face of one's own mortality, the only conceivable choice is joy.

That's how boys are. They never grow up. They grow down.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won't have anything to complain about.

apám elismer?en mondja, hogy "a Victor Hugó nagyon jó író", fontoskodva kioktatom: Apa rosszul mondja a nevét. Ügónak ejtik. Leszarom, hogy ejtik, mondja apám rezzenéstelenül. Minden nevet úgy kell ejteni, ahogy le van írva. A többi csak felvágás.

Sniff looked at them and noticed that they were much smaller than he was, so he felt kinder and said, condescendingly. "Hullo. Nice to see you.

Is it true you were born i the eighteen-hundreds?" Sophia yelled through the window. "What of it?" Grandmother answered, very distinctly. "What do you know about the eighteen-hundreds?" "Nothing, and i'm not interested, either," Sophia shouted and ran away.

My mother tells me all the time that if you don't trouble trouble, then trouble won't trouble you.

I'm quick enough to criticize and lecture the poor man. Praise should be just as quick to come when the right course is chosen.

Being As it pertains to transformation, the realm of possibility in which something exists, rather than an emotional or behavioral state. The way you are being at any given time determines what's possible.

You probably already know what your persistent, unwanted conditions are. (A clue is: They are the things that you complain the most about.)

Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

MATTIE FAE: I'm still very sexy, thank you very much. VIOLET: You're about as sexy as a wet cardboard box, Mattie Fae, you and me both. Don't kid yourself.

Even when you can't do or say anything to change a difficult situation, you always have a say in your perspective of what's happening, which ultimately influences your feelings about it.