Quotes About Attitude

Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.

O]ne of the read truths about life in any police department: For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of coworkers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job. All of it matters if you don't.

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After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his weary-eyed smile. "Just because you can't live any other way, can you?" he replied.

I must admit I hadn't realized my knees were so sexy.

It won't always be wonderful. It depends on your state of grace.

Y en esta nueva sociedad de un modo u otro todos acabaremos siendo un poco millennials, no importa en qué año hayamos nacido.

Nunca le niegues el saludo a nadie, me explicaba, no les concedas la ventaja de que sepan lo que piensas de ellos.

If you hang with dogs, then of course you must get treated like dogs.

Risero entrambi, ricordandomi che sapevo parlare, quando ero dell'umore giusto. I miei ostacoli erano spesso miei, appunto.

Falconer was wearing his street clothes—jeans, a black turtleneck and an empty shoulder holster under his armpit. Cowboy boots. Little bit of beard stubble. John wondered if the guy would walk from one end of the street to the other without winding up covered in bitches.

My hair looked like I had combed it with an angry cat.

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

I'm not afraid of her," she said. "That's just the way old women are. I'm not afraid of anybody. I feel sorry for them, coming to me someday begging me to forgive 'em because they didn't realize I was going to turn out so rich and famous.

My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

In my mind, you win when you reach the start line, not the finish line.

Being originated from a poor family does not let you think poor, but your weaknesses do.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

If you make every game a life-and-death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

It is difficult to imagine a stream that flows two directions at the same time, but this is just what the nervous system does. The failure to sufficiently appreciate this unity of seeming opposites leads us into separating too absolutely afferent from efferent, sensation from behavior, attitude from activity. And this leads us in turn into forgetting how powerfully touch, sensation, continually alters internal conditions and overt behavior.

I abhorred weakness of any kind but most particularly in my tea.