Quotes About Attitude

I never hear you practice." He smiled: "Only those who are dirty need to wash.

I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.

In the long run, you can never be any better than your surroundings. When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they are animals, you, too, become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.

When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

The young men thought it was too hot to sleep inside their kaia, Bwana," he replied. "Also," he said, shuffling the dirt with a big toe, "they were a little bit drunk." He shrugged with typical African fatalism. Most Africans believe it can never happen to them, something like the attitude of front-line troops. The millet and sorghum

Psychologists call this sort of mental mechanism, in which beliefs conform to behavior rather than the other way around, a response to "cognitive dissonance,

he didn't seem to mind being cold and wet or exhausted the way other people did. It wasn't fun, but then life wasn't meant to be that fun. That was the difference, Wynn thought. For Jack, stuff like cold and hunger didn't have a value, good or bad, they just were, and it was best if they didn't last that long; but if they did, as long as one survived them, no harm, no foul. It gave Jack a strength, a temper, that Wynn admired.

In China it's common for people in restaurants to complain about food. The Chinese can be passive about many things, but food is not one of them; I suppose this is one reason they've ended up with a first-rate cuisine and a long history of political disasters.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Perspective. Everything was about perspective. One man's darkness was another man's daylight. How come so many people did not realize that?

Know the definition of a pessimist?' Branson shook his head. 'It's an optimist with experience.

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

Reality never changes. It is our attitudes about reality that change.

And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

and he told them, “I can see from your fatherís countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.

All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:

Do everything without complaining or arguing,