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Quotes About Attitude

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between.
~ David Foster Wallace
basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.
~ David Foster Wallace
No, you simply sit there with your arms crossed nodding with that timeless patience that communicates condescension and judgment without exposing you to responsibility for insinuating anything aloud.
~ David Foster Wallace
I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying.
~ David Foster Wallace
It'll help your attitude to look for evidence of design.
~ David Foster Wallace
The world divides into those who like the managed induction of terror and those who don't. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying.
~ David Foster Wallace
You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn.
~ David Foster Wallace
That—to cut to a chase which the interviewers' hands-on-hip attitudes and replacement of the lamp's bulb with a much higher wattage signified they'd very much like to see cut to—as
~ David Foster Wallace
I have no problem with government enforcement of statutes and regulatory policy serving a conscience function. What my problem is is the way it seems that we as individual citizens have adopted a corporate attitude. That our ultimate obligation is to ourselves.
~ David Foster Wallace
Ya eran una desgracia las pequeñas cucarachas marrones de Boston y Nueva Orleans, pero al menos uno podía entrar a su casa y, al encender la luz, huían despavoridas. Estas cucarachas de cloacas del sudoeste, cuando enciendes las luces, te miran de abajo arriba como diciendo: ¿Tienes algún problema?
~ David Foster Wallace
All the world used her ill, said this young misanthropist, ... and we may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treats ill, deserve entirely the treatment they get. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The girl's sense of ridicule was far stronger than her gratitude.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Lumea e o oglinda care ofera inapoi fiecaruia reflectia propriului chip. Daca te incrunti se incrunta si ea inapoi spre tine, daca razi devine si ea o companie vesela si placuta
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you ; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion;
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. For if you love me I will always be in your heart; if you hate me I will always be in your mind.
~ William Shakespeare
If your mind dislike anything obey it
~ William Shakespeare
The worst is not, so long as we can say, This is the worst.
~ William Shakespeare
Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.
~ William Shakespeare
pain may be inevitable but suffering is optional.
~ William Ury
I been packin' iron for so long that if I don't have one on me somewheres, I walk slant-wise.
~ William W. Johnstone
Las personas que triunfan a largo plazo son aquellas que tienen una actitud positiva y que han creado una reputación de excelencia
~ Willie Jolley