Quotes About Attitude

Optimal results are not achievable without optimal behavior.

Parisian arrogance meant that nobody was important, nobody counted.

If there remains any overriding idea it is that ideas are a problem. If there is any remaining commonly held value judgement it is that value judgements are wrong. If there remains any remaining certainty it is a distrust of certainty. And if this does not add up to a philosophy it certainly adds up to an attitude: shallow, unlikely to survive any sustained onslaught, but easy enough to adopt.

At the heart of which attitude lies the strange retributive instinct of our time towards the past which suggests that we know ourselves to be better than people in history because we know how they behaved and we know that we would have behaved better. There is a gigantic modern fallacy at work here.

It began to behave – in victory – as its opponents once did. When the boot was on the other foot something ugly happened.

The upsides of migration have become easy to talk about: to simply nod to them is to express values of openness, tolerance and broad-mindedness. Yet to nod to, let alone express, the downsides of immigration is to invite accusations of closed-mindedness and intolerance, xenophobia and barely disguised racism. All of which leaves the attitude of the majority of the public almost impossible to express.

The manner in which people and movements behave at the point of victory can be the most revealing thing about them.

People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.

Criticism should be received as a kindness (Ps. 141:5).

They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

You are what you think you are

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let is destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books.

If you tell yourself that you cannot, what can the only outcome be?

Every scowling face also contains the shapes of engaging smiles, just waiting to be released.

Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way.

World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night.

I hate callin women bitches but the bitches love it.

She live in a mindset that I could never move to

Niggas wit no money act like money isnt everything.

They say Im one of the illest, thats just off of first impression. And my cards always accepted, I dont deal well with rejection.