Quotes About Attitude

What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

you create the results in life that you believe you deserve.

She laughed merrily. "What can you do but laugh?

There's danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can't find joy where we are, we probably won't find it anywhere.

The Manchester Guardian noted: 'People do not understand this legalistic attitude to affairs of life and death.

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.

I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on.

He sighed, defeated by her threat. "I'll dial what's on my schedule for today." Examining the schedule for January 3, 2021, he saw that a businesslike professional attitude was called for. "If I dial by schedule," he said warily, "will you agree to also?" He waited, canny enough not to commit himself until his wife had agreed to follow suit.

the massively built old man was tired, despite his customary show of energy. I guess when you get up into that bracket, Herbert decided, you have to act in a certain way; you have to appear more than a human with merely ordinary failings.

For a guy with only one peeper, Olsen commented, you're doing okay. Morosely, he added: But you'd sure be up shit creek if you lost the other.

Weltanschauung.

The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.

Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

There's no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.

In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

ahimsa, often translated as non-violence. More accurately it means non-harming, having an attitude of mind that does not wish injury to any creature, not merely for human beings, but for plants, animals and the entire natural order. For it to be complete, ahimsa must extend not only to action but also to speech and to thought. Ahimsa is the most important observance in the practice of yoga and the basis for mental peace, which is not possible if we harbor thoughts of harm for others.

Il ne se faisait plus aucune illusion sur les Musulmans au Maroc, où, à la veille de l'indépendance, il les avait vus soudainement passer d'une attitude amicale à la sauvagerie la plus meurtrière. Il

When Silicon Valley says "disruption," this means they don't understand what they're doing, don't care to understand, and have only contempt for anyone who objects. "Move fast and break things," as Facebook used to put it.

I pushed myself off and sailed out of the room. It's hard to slam a door in free fall, don't even try. You can't even swim away with an attitude. It just doesn't work. The best you can do is swim away, scowling.

Never wager against the success of mediocrity.

When one southerner was asked why so many people were killed in his region, he answered that "there were just more folks in the South that needed killing.

I had a couple of restaurants, nothing too grand. But I'd already worked out – I'm not an idiot – you either run money or else it runs you. If you keep your money … if you're frightened to spend it, you become its prisoner. OK, sure, when you're making it, be as mean as you like. But when you spend it, just give. Give. Show your contempt for it.

commiserating and complaining with another miserable individual, but the minute he's in a good mood he will abandon the toxic, annoying person. He seeks solace with somebody who feels as he does, but when he no longer feels that way he will instantly leave this relationship. This is because he never liked the person (at least not for this similarity); he enjoyed only the shared attitude.

Your strange!" she gushed. (She meant "You're," but Peter felt absolutely certain that she was one of those people who spell it "Your.")