Quotes About Attitude

Suzanne was so crabby and bossy every day.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

If Hilbert's view prevails over intuitionism, as appears to be the case, then I see in this a decisive defeat of the philosophical attitude of pure phenomenology, which thus proves to be insufficient for the understanding of creative science even in the area of cognition that is most primal and most readily open to evidence – mathematics.

Generosity is the mother of ingratitude.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective. . . When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.

You're a tough guy, aren't you?" Tough was the biggest compliment my family offered. Nice was fine, smart was good, but tough was what we aimed for.

I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that it is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

If your going to be ugly it is well to be whole-hearted about it, put some effort in. Georges turned heads.

There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, inbuilt, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.

Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters. . .

He has noticed this: that men who have not met him dislike him, but when they have met him, only some of them do.

Well, you know how it is, some people are born with sour temperaments and they use the misfortunes in their lives as an excuse for them.

I truly believe I should be a better man if the weather were better.

There's always going to be both: -magic & disaster- and we get to decide what to put our focus on.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Winston Churchill, who apart from his statesmanship also wrote and painted prolifically, famously defined success as arising from "the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

She reported that when she'd told her doctor she was losing it, he said that she'd likely had too much to begin with.

Yare Yare Daze.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.