Quotes About Attitude

The gal likes to have fun. But I'm in my fifties. Hell, I could be her father." "Hasn't stopped people in the past.

You take life as it comes at you, and it's rarely perfect.

It was like Julie had said. You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.

I remember thinking about her that it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. And

Experience without cynicism was a sure sign your brain had dry-rotted and you hadn't bothered to notice.

Growing old is so darn unappealing until you consider the alternative.

You can't change the feeling but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. (2012)

I'm just a cosmic yob, I suppose.

It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.

Understand the significance of mind-set and culture. If the mind-set doesn't change, operations won't change either.

The attitude that depression is necessary strikes me as destructive, inhuman, and victimizing.

This isn't a new idea. Nearly two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher, Epictctus, stated that people are disturbed "not by things, but by the views we take of them." In the Book of Proverbs (23: 7) in the Old Testament you can find this passage: "For as he thinks within himself, so he is." And even Shakespeare expressed a similar idea when he said: "for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" (Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2).

you can change your mood by changing how you think.

Mental Filter. You pick out a negative detail in any situation and dwell on it exclusively, thus perceiving that the whole situation is negative.

your thoughts create your feelings.

In my practice I find that the great majority of the depressed patients referred to me improve substantially if they try to help themselves. Sometimes it hardly seems to matter what you do as long as you do something with the attitude of self-help.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment

You're a cynic, Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about.

This American penchant for absolution via irony is foreign to them.

Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.