Quotes About Attitude

Our attitudes are important! In fact, they are more important than our actions, because they are the foundation upon which our actions are built.

When we are asked to do something that inconveniences us, we are to take on a servant's attitude. Servanthood takes great strength, much greater strength than demanding our own way. And it is that strength which will cause people to notice something different in our lives (Mathew 5:41).

When he was on, he was on—loving everything, everybody. But when he was off, he was off—cold, distant, short. Tom Hall came up with a nickname for the behavior. In computers, information is represented in bits. A bit can be either on or off. Tom called Romero's mood swings the bit flip.

If you must have a female role model, may I recommend Katherine Hepburn or Angelina Jolie: lots of pants, lots of attitude, no jewelry.

because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up because no one could think of anything else good to say to a person who'd just been shit upon?

I realized that this was my life, and there was nothing I could do about it. I couldn't fight the tide, so I decided to float along.

Chuck is a short guy but he works out a lot, so as a result he's built like a fire hydrant. Most of the time he acts like a fire hydrant, too.

If there is one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

I guess it's a choice we make, she said. What's a choice? I asked. And she said, How much of the world we let it.

The bad can be found in anything. It is so much easier to find than the good.

I guess Poole doesn't like social media. Which is weird, since so many modern megalomaniacs do.

He has many reasons to scorn the bulk of humanity, and feels no shame for it.

One can very agreeably ignore a rain by walking in it. In fact it is when one allows a rain to prevent one from walking in it that one is failing to ignore it. Surely by saying, dear me, I will get soaked through and through if I walk in this rain, for instance, one is in no way ignoring the rain.

Festinger argued that in reality we usually just find a way to ignore or discount dissonant information.

It was nice to find out, then, that if one is characterologically incapable of not being a total fuckface, science has not shown you will die any sooner . People might just be gladder when you eventually do.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

I was a smart-ass, born and raised. This had been my curse and would continue to be so.

Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

In France the most often used word is "connerie," which means "bullshit," and in America it's hands-down "awesome," which has replaced "incredible," "good," and even "just OK." Pretty much everything that isn't terrible is awesome in America now.

You know you're young when someone asks you for money and you take it as a compliment.

Nothing irritated her more than these high-and-mighty vegetarians who ate meat sometimes and then decided that it didn't really count.

Now it seems cruel, abusive even, but this all happened before the invention of self-esteem, which, frankly, I think is a little overrated.

It had nothing to do with changing people—forget that, on a good day you're lucky if you can talk someone into changing their socks.