Quotes About Attitude

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Digo que la semilla del fanatismo siempre brota al adoptar una actitud de superioridad moral que impide llegar a un acuerdo.

No entanto, não afirmo que qualquer um que levante a voz contra alguma coisa seja um fanático. Não sugiro que qualquer um que manifeste opiniões veementes seja um fanático, claro que não. Digo que a semente do fanatismo brota ao adoptar-se uma atitude de superioridade moral que impeça a obtenção de consensos.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

Weather, she thinks, is impartial. You don't need to be principled to enjoy a breezy day like this. You merely have to be alive.

There are no miracles on Mondays.

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

Qué era peor, nos preguntábamos entre nosotras, sentarnos y esperar la muerte con el rostro apropiadamente sombrío, o buscar una manera de ser felices a pesar de todo?

glowered, and she returned

She was either temperamental, meaning short-tempered and unhappy, or she was melancholy, meaning listless and unhappy.

All this talk of oblivion, of wanting nothing and becoming nobody, seems rather contradictory from a Buddhist sense. The Buddha did all this himself and he became so much a nobody that he became famous, the biggest nobody of them all. And he will never disappear, because fame has made him immortal. But I do admire him for his attitude and discipline. He was a good Indian son.

Pleasure is an attitude, not a person or place.   —Diary 6, pg. 52

saw him as a saint. His attitude silenced me. From that moment on, if he had been brought back to me dead on a stretcher, I would not have cared. He cannot hurt me any more.

I am most deeply concerned over a trend toward conformity, a growth of anti-intellectualism, which manifests itself in a sneering attitude toward education, science, and the arts. The tendency is to stifle mental freedom, which is the very basis of a democracy's life and growth.

The romantic submits to life, the classicist dominates it.

Everybody who keeps cool is superior. But who likes the man who keeps cool? Not I. If you go on like this I will fight!

Control what you can control.

The first thing to describe is the event, not your attitude to it. Your attitude has to be made clear by the film as a whole, to be part of its total impact. In a mosaic each separate piece is of a particular, single colour. It may be blue, or white, or red — they are all different. And then you look at the completed picture and see what the author had in mind.

Today is my second-last lecture of the course. I don't think much of these students, I must say. They're a dim lot.

He developed a particularly annoying way of ignoring the teaching during the term and then coming top in the examination.

there are many out-of-the-way things it is as well to know, but one should never boast of them.

The world believes, "Success makes you happy." The truth is; happiness makes you successful. The Happier You Get …

Every "disaster" in your life is not so much a disaster, as a situation waiting for you to change your mind about it.