Quotes About Attitude

Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

Even when I'm playing someone named Fat Amy, I'm all about confidence and attitude.

The problem probably started when I refused to call the process of purchasing the device an "upgrade." When I buy a new roll of toilet paper, I do not refer to it as "upgrading" my toilet paper even if, for some uncanny reason, the new roll is slightly better than the previous one.

His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits — the relevant fruits — are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits

Ik verveel me niet. Ik ben ongelukkig.' 'Omdat je in geluk gelooft. Iedereen die in geluk gelooft is ongelukkig.

That's the biz, Sweetheart.

This 'specialization', arising from an analytical attitude of mind, has been pushed to such a point that those who have undergone its influence are incapable of conceiving of a science that deals with nature in its entirety.

The tendencies that found expression among the Greeks had to be pushed to the extreme, the undue importance given to rational thought had to grow even greater, before men could arrive at 'rationalism', a specifically modern attitude that consists in not merely ignoring, but expressly denying, everything of a supra-rational order.

Ma eccola lì, la gente sempre pronta a disapprovare, seduta al ristorante a sgranocchiare ossicini.

altogether too much of life is mood. Aldo

In spite of his policeman's conditioning, he clung to the belief he'd grown up with: that people, by and large, behaved according to how they were treated.

IF WE ARE very forbearing, then something we would normally consider very painful will not appear so bad after all. But without patient endurance, even the smallest thing becomes unbearable. A lot depends on our attitude.

Change your perspective. It could change your life.

Polypharmacology and curmudgeonliness were keeping her alive.

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.

I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. So

finally left the worst of the happy throng behind and made it to the Methodist grub-tent, having passed by the Baptists with the snooty feeling of a man-about-town who is in the know.

please?" "Ridiculous," he said curtly

When he was taking his coat off I had to stand back so as not to get socked in the eye with his arms swinging around, and I don't cotton to a guy with that sort of an attitude towards his fellowmen in confined spaces. Particularly I think they ought to be kept out of elevators, but I'm not fond of them anywhere.

pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

I was yelling at a dame with a frontage that would have made a good bookshelf.

A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.