Quotes About Attitude

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

I have a car but it's not important.

I've wrecked my fair share of cars. I've had my fair share of injuries. If you put too much focus on it or you really worry about it, it's going to consume you. That's never good.

Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

Don't drive as if you own the road; drive as if you own the car.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Changing would not give me the best chance to win. I need to have fun. I need to attack.

There isn't any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that—every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new. —DZIGAR KONGTRUL RINPOCHE

Wisdom is a fluid process, not something concrete that can be added up or measured. The warrior-bodhisattva trains with the attitude that everything is a dream. Life is a dream; death is a dream; waking is a dream; sleeping is a dream. This dream is the direct immediacy of our experience. Trying to hold on to any of it by buying our story line only blocks our wisdom.

Live your life as an experiment. Adopt an attitude of "I'm not sure what will help in this situation, but I'm going to experiment and try this." Sometimes the result will be, "Wow, did that ever not work!" But if it is, we've learned something. And now we can try something else.

Change your attitude, but remain natural.

One piece of advice that Don Juan gave to Carlos Casteneda was to do everything as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered, while all the time knowing that it doesn't matter at all. That attitude leads to more appreciation and less burnout, because we do the job wholeheartedly and we care.

Our attitude can be that we keep getting another chance, rather than that we're just getting another bad deal.

There isn't any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life. When you want to say no to the situation you're in, it's fine to say no, but when you build up a big case to the point where you're so convinced that you would draw your sword and cut off someone's head, that kind of resistance to life is hell.

Above all, though, we don't want a weakly habit of constant complaint. As a rough guide, remember that while the average man is ill for four days a year, a grown woman must expect to spend one fourth of her life in actual pain. Daisy felt a rush of admiration. So far she herself had done nothing like her fair share.

I'm sure you didn't. You're either a child or a woman, and neither of them have any idea how to relax.' 'You watch it,' said Christine.

Helen recognised that she, and Edward, and Dorothy herself, for that matter, were not as others are when it came to possession. She seldom wanted anything. Edward was the same. Her mother had hated spending money, not out of parsimony but laziness. Whatever it was in the make-up of most people that responds to the sight of goods for sale had been left out, in their case.

You need a certain mentality to cope with children. I don't have it. Thank God.