Quotes About Attitude

How we respond in the face of a challenge tells us more about who we really are than all the pious rhetoric about our alleged attitudes, values or aspirations. [p37]

Nothing coats the world bad or good, but thinking makes it so.

By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.

Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

People look at you a certain way and somehow you wind up being that way.

You can choose to believe whatever you wish; just remember that your beliefs drive your behavior.

The principle on the Belief Window has to change first or the behavior will never change.

Unless the belief changes, the behavior will not change.

They say, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair.

You can tell what God thinks about money when you see the sort of people he gives it to. S. Lewin Northwood, Middlesex

Those bands, in their style and approach, that's what I call tits-and-ass metal," comments Rob Halford of Judas

the work of his favourite painter at the time, brett whitely, seemed to offer some focus for his rebellious attitude towards moribund suburban melbourne. cave was intrigued by the intensity and diversity of the themes that the sydney-based painter included in his landscapes

There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states

And how did you find the East?' 'It's a shit-hole. But it's our shit-hole.

One more Socially Responsible cheep out of you, doggy, and it's back in the workbag for the rest of the afternoon.

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

The glass is always half full even when it's upside down.

Bad-mouthing everyone else is such a simple option.

if a theorem is geometrically obvious why prove it? This was exactly the attitude taken in the eighteenth century. The result, in the nineteenth century, was chaos and confusion: for intuition, unsupported by logic, habitually assumes that everything is much nicer behaved than it really is.     Good

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best – and hope.

It's just as well that bicycles don't suffer from inferiority complexes!' cracked Audrey.

What made New Jack City work is that I showed up with zero attitude. I was a wide-eyed rookie, a sponge, trying to soak it up and willing to learn from everybody. I didn't know shit about hitting marks or character motivation—all this acting