Quotes About Attitude

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requirement.

[T]he way he treats his body, you'd think he was renting.

The best way to escape His ireIs, not to seem too happy.

It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn't get into this business because we like people.

Just as the Hare was overconfident in its speed, so the developers are overconfident in their ability to remain productive.

Clean code is focused. Each function, each class, each module exposes a single-minded attitude that remains entirely undistracted, and unpolluted, by the surrounding details.

He was deficient in such qualities as patience, even temper, cooperativeness, and the capacity to subordinate oneself, in small ways and large, to the needs of an institution.

There is no indication that he thought of himself as a "machine politician" in our sense of that phrase.

Apart from their attitude toward Lenin, Bolsheviks were not generally inclined to attach much importance to the personal factor in politics. To their Marxist-trained minds, what mainly mattered about a comrade was not his personality but his political beliefs, his ideological commitment, the rightness or wrongness of his positions in party councils.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

people get the mind and quality of brain that they deserve through their actions in life.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.

Pense nos idiotas da mesma forma que em crianças ou animais domésticos - não são suficientemente importantes para afectar o sue equilíbrio mental.

If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge-a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral. --Arthur Schopenhauer

you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge