Quotes About Attitude

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

She was strikingly ignorant, but he had known that from the start. What he had not known was how quickly her ignorance would cease to seem charming and would begin to seem contemptible.

There are three groups of people with respect to empowerment: Those who get it. Those who really want to get it. Those who probably will never get it.

A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.

The Nordstrom corollary to that philosophy is hire the smile, train the skill.

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

It irked St Augustine (CG, 6, 4, 1-2) that Varro put human affairs before divine ones, for - the Latin antiquary explained - cities had existed before religious institutions, 'as the artist exists before the picture and the architect before the building'. Such an attitude was typical of a Roman, for whom religion was not a matter of personal devotion, but concerned a collective interest.

Oh, it's too bad!—really, men are tiresome when they think they know everything!

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking....History may kill you, it is true, but you have taken the right attitude, you will have been intelligent and humane and suitably melancholy to the end.

I" act differently when in different "moods

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

últimamente me noto una tendencia preocupante a aceptar las cosas tal como son.

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

I think the only test in life should be, are you a nice person or a mean one?

Los hombres son todos iguales, cuando se sienten mal, no quieren reconocerlo.

It's more fun to hang out with someone who's upbeat and positive than it is to hang out with Hater McWhineypants.

If a few students come reluctantly to their studies, then let them go. If all students come reluctantly to their studies, then let your scribe be dismissed and find another. For once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.

It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it.

That was Verity's way. MOnths had passed since we had last spoken but he took no times for greetings. Chade said it was a lack in him, that he didn't make his men feel their importance to him. I think he believed that if anything significant had happened to me, someone would have told him. He had a bluff heartiness to him that I enjoyed, an attitude that things must be going well unless someone ahd told him otherwise.

Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners.