Quotes About Attitude

I come across as being arrogant and dismissive, even if that is not the case.

Rich, arrogant, lucky, mollycoddled and stupid. That's always people's preconception.

I always thought, 'TV is very specific and I'm not really into that.' I was a bit too arrogant on that front.

When it came to playing Arsenal over the last eight years of my career at United, we always went into games against them feeling like we would win - and we usually did.

When I left Arsenal I never said I didn't like England. I was very young and my problems were all in my head.

I have never really sensed any of Miyazaki's artistic influence on Ando. If there is an influence, it's more in his attitude to his work.

Una mujer bella puede ser ella misma a su antojo; la sociedad le pasa siempre por alto una tontería o una torpeza, mientras que una sola mirada detiene la más magnífica expresión en los labios de una mujer fea, intimida sus ojos, aumenta la poca gracia de sus ademanes, coarta su actitud. Bien sabe que sólo a ella se le prohíbe cometer faltas, que todos le niegan el don de repararlas, y, por lo demás, nadie le proporciona la ocasión de ello.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

They change their clime, not their disposition, who run across the sea.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

One of the great killers in Bible study is the statement, "I already know that.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Some people are intensely competitive in seeking social status; others show little interest in the game. Some people dote on children; others take the attitude of W. C. Fields. Still, it is hard indeed to imagine anyone happy who had achieved none or only a few of those natural goods. Someone without health or wealth or family or social standing or friendship or a sense of purpose would seem to be in a very bad way, perhaps suicidally depressed

Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence.

Under the general plan of nonresistance one may take the position of imitation. The aim of such an attitude is to assimilate the culture and the social behavior-pattern of the dominant group. It is the profound capitulation to the powerful, because it means the yielding of oneself to that which, deep within, one recognizes as being unworthy. It makes for a strategic loss of self-respect.

The other alternative in the nonresistance pattern is to reduce contact with the enemy to a minimum. It is the attitude of cultural isolation in the midst of a rejected culture. Cunning the mood may be—one of bitterness and hatred, but also one of deep, calculating fear. To take up active resistance would be foolhardy, for a thousand reasons. The only way out is to keep one's resentment under rigid control and censorship.

This is the position of the disinherited in every age. What must be the attitude toward the rulers, the controllers of political, social, and economic life? This is the question of the Negro in American life. Until he has faced and settled that question, he cannot inform his environment with reference to his own life, whatever may be his preparation or his pretensions.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts — it's what you do with what you have left.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.

Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me," he would say. "Johnson didn't enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn't think they had a sense of humor.

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

Somewhere a clock ticked. Quite fast. Too fast, it seemed to me, to be counting seconds. But then this was an American building, and maybe Americans had decided that seconds were just too goddamned slow, and how's about a clock that can do a minute in twenty seconds? That way, we get more goddamned hours in a goddamned day than these faggot limeys.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.