Quotes About Attitude

Pity Matt didn't help him through a window instead of over a sofa," she grumbled. "He needs an attitude adjustment.

For Lewis, praise is not only a natural part of life, but also one of the most important traits of a healthy mind. He observes, "The humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, minds praised most, while the cranks, misfits and malcontents praised least." He sums it up this way: "Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

Everybody at a university was to her a professor, unless they were students of course, and therefore even worse.

You know this could kill me, don't you?' 'Look on the bright side,' said Howl. 'It could be me it kills.

I know Brian is nasty, but I had always thought it was his situation before this,' Nirupam remarked.... Charles could not answer at once, because he was not sure that a person's character could be separate from his situation in quite this way.

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

I'm sorry for when you asked me about Soviet foreign policy I said , Who gives a $@!&?

being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

Too bad he wasn't as nice as his truck.

We are an impatient culture and an impatient electorate.

No, what interests me most here is the familiar attitude of superiority, condescension, and disdain. That was evident in the pro-slavery blather of the nineteenth century, and it was on full display at the Mandarin Oriental in November 2014. Democrats, it seems, never change their stripes.

I really am just as discontented, but I don't seem to notice it so much.

I thought what a good man he is, yet never annoyingly holy. And it struck me for the first time that if such a clever, highly educated man can believe in religion, it is almost impudent of an ignorant person like me to feel bored and superior about it.

Bad times don't last long. It's all about how you look at the situation. You can either get stuck in that shit or move past it. It's good that you pushing through.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

Self-pity oozed through my soul. I tried to relax and enjoy it.

The novel is a fucking killer. I try to show it every respect.

People seemed to depend on his cheerfulness. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.