Quotes About Attitude

If someone is quite tall, the people will sing songs about his height. We don't have to overreact. You just have to do your job.

It's not everything to be tall.

I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

I felt like in Tampa Bay a lot of people thought we were overachieving.

We have to improve our ability to deliver tangible results, namely sales, not simply awareness or change of attitude among opinion formers.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

I]f we take the whole history of philosophy, the systems reduce themselves to a few main types which, under all the technical verbiage in which the ingenious intellect of man envelops them, are just so many visions, modes of feeling the whole push, and seeing the whole drift of life, forced on one by one's total character and experience, and on the whole preferred – there is no other truthful word – as one's best working attitude. (James 1977, pp. 14–15)

Page 15: This prohibition to emigration [from China] applied not only to persons wishing to settle permanently abroad but often to itinerant merchants as well. It seems to have stemmed, at least in part, from the Chinese attitude of superiority with regard to other peoples. A Chinese who preferred to live among barbarians must likewise be an inferior person.

It is one thing to act like a servant; it is quite another to be a servant.

If we are full of compassion, it will be revealed; if we are full of bitterness, that also will be revealed. It

Brooding is for chickens, as my first-grade teacher used to say. Or maybe it was Lucifer. Homily reciters all kind of run together for me.

You're a philosopher." "No. Just drunk.

Where are we going?" "For ice cream. What's your favorite flavor?" "Fuck you." "That's my favorite, too.

I prefer Abomination. It fits better on a T-shirt. I'd comp you one, but we don't have any big enough for your ego.

As far as assholes go, you're not the biggest one I ever met." "That I'll take as a compliment.

Remind me not to get on your bad side." "You still think I have a good side?" "There's a search party out for it but I'm optimistic they'll turn up something.

I say, "How do I look?" "Like a pail of manure dragged down a bumpy road and dumped into a river of puke," says a familiar voice from behind me.

Things are bad enough without getting cancer too," he says. "It's never too late to develop bad habits.

Young vampires are all assholes. It's part of their job description.

Is killing someone always like this?" "Just the first couple of times. After that it's like folding socks. But that's just me." She

No hospitals, she says. I know. Where are we going? For ice cream. What's your favorite flavor? Fuck you. That's my favorite, too.

The only thing we can control is our response.