Quotes About Attitude

He was probably a Sagittarius, like Rosalie herself, born with a quiver of arrows, and a license to be an asshole.

When i see an ugly bride, what i am really seeing is a glimmer of hope for the future [maybe i will marry someday.]

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization — you can't just swallow it whole.

Failure is one of those things that 'serious people' dread. Invariably, the persons most likely to be crippled by this fear are people who have convinced themselves that they are SO bitchen they shouldn't ever be placed in a situation where they might fail. Failure is nothing to get upset about. It's a fairly normal condition; an inevitability in ninety-nine percent of all human undertakings. Success is rare—that's why people get so cranked up about it.

I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer.

I am dead and despise anyone who isn't

Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.

He was always inclined to take life as lightly as he could, to cross bridges when he came to them, pay no heed for the future, even when everything seemed under threat. But here that did not seem the right thing to do.

Living my life in conservation, I see far greater tragedies and crimes against wildlife than the loss of a few thousand badgers. The real reason so many people are so unsettled by the cull is its sinister reflection on the democratic process, on our government's attitude to conservation and to science.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

It's a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it's also wildly true. Just don't mistake it for a fixation with getting rich.

It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.