Quotes About Attitude

He was smiling openly when Stephen walked in, looking shrewish. Like many large, florid, good-natured men, Jack Aubrey was afflicted with an undue proportion of small pale, meagre friends of a shrewish turn.

none of the peevishness and ill-nature so usual in the elderly.

Our beliefs are the lens through which we see the world. They are the glasses we put on in the morning, which provide the patterns we see. As we become more self-aware, we can identify our patterns, and then, to the extent we desire, change our lenses.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

Because they don't want to seem vulnerable. Humans have a lot of this attitude called 'pride,' which is sort of like the satisfaction you get when your machine performs correctly. Pride makes them act contrary to the way they really feel.

Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him.

In reality the gatherings were held in order to entertain these few Moslem guests, to whom the unaccountable behavior of Europeans never ceased to be a fascinating spectacle. Most of the Europeans, of course, thought the Moslem gentlemen were invited to add local color.

One can only worry so much, however; then one becomes philosophical. I suppose philosophy is merely sublimated worry.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Everyone is a philosopher." Everyone takes a philosophical view of things—a worldview, some call it—even if their philosophical assumptions are subconscious and unexplored.

cynicism enables you to do nothing but feel morally superior to those who are doing something good but imperfect in an imperfect

Jesus wasn't always nice. I'm nice. I'm not like Jesus.

There's so much going on here, and out there, and places we don't even know about. Everything's so scary and uncertain. We never know when fate will shake it all up. That's pretty deep. You gotta wonder how we'll ever make it through. I guess we can fall back on what's gotten us this far. A positive attitude and lots of denial?

Those in authority tend to be annoyed by hackers' general attitude of disobedience. But that disobedience is a byproduct of the qualities that make them good programmers.

If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

They're like Generation X on steroids. They walk in with high expectations for themselves, their employer, their boss. If you thought you saw a clash when Generation X came into the workplace—that was the fake punch. The haymaker is coming now.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe" - Albert Einstein  [52]

Rock it man. I know you will

It's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.

You're never too old to be young.

pain is fact; suffering is optional

They feel that by simply being issued the special gear, they are qualified to do the mission. An old instructor said to me, "It takes five minutes to dress like a commando, but years to become one." This attitude of the "the gear makes me" is false. You always make the gear.

wily minds and cold hearts were the combination Bronowsky found most common in English administrators.

Her attitude to the girls became that of an aunt who knew her nieces had heard her discussed unfavorably but could not help showing her interest in them and some of her affection.Indeed she seemedm to acquire something of the thick skin such a woman had to cultivate if her feelings were not to be constantly hurt by inattention to her questions, opinions, and fund of boring anecdotes.