Quotes About Attitude

Što se ti?e njegovog odnosa prema mrtvima, taj je zaista bio vrlo loš. On je doista vjerovao da mrtvima treba prepustiti da pokopaju svoje mrtve. I da je život samo onda život kada se nedvosmisleno shva?a kao umiranje.

He was an extremely correct person except that he never shaved in the morning, not caring, probably, how he looked to the fumblers and the old people and the operators and the gamblers and the idlers of Broadway uptown.

Sartre says, "Those who claim that the Arabs started the war, that they are criminals, forget to consider the situation of the Palestinians, the absolutely insufferable situation of the Palestinians. They also forget that the Arabs from the beginning have been led by British maneuvers to take a negative attitude toward Israel, an attitude which has persisted since 1948, when an idiotic war was provoked.

The position taken by Foreign Minister Maurice Jobert in the October War of 1973 was that the Palestinian Arabs had a natural and justified desire to "go home." I expressed, politely, the hope that the other attitude, the revolutionary one, would not be abandoned.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Pessimism is often a failure of imagination.

Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue

to letting the environment dictate how you feel on any given day, it would be like a minor superpower.

Persistent negativity is a harsh mental prison. Humans need optimism and hope to fuel progress. If all you see is the negative, while those around you seem to be experiencing optimism, that's a signal you might be in a mental prison.

Confirmation bias isn't an occasional bug in our human operating system. It is the operating system.

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

I am not sure, I answered. I hope it won't break my heart if I don't do well. I had been concentrating on developing that kind of attitude since I'd emerged from my depression in November. I'd realized how much I had taken the achievement ethic to heart - I had been so hard on my mistakes and middling performances. A sincere effort was all I owed myself.

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.

It's just the way things are. she shrugged. It's no one's fault. Or everyone's.

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

Boys had something else...a sort of swagger about them.

We human bekngsoften complain that there are so few good days and so many bad ones; but I think we are generally wrong. If our hearts were always open to enjoy the good, which God gives us Every day, then we should also have enough strength to hear the evil, whenever it comes.

Succede per il cattivo umore come per la pigrizia; anzi esso è proprio una specie di pigrizia. Non vi siamo portati per natura, ma se abbiamo una volta la forza di liberarcene, il lavoro si svolge facilmente e troviamo un vero piacere nell'attività».

Succede per il cattivo umore come per la pigrizia. Noi vi siamo portati per natura, ma se abbiamo una volta la forza di liberarcene, il lavoro si svolge facilmente e troviamo un vero piacere nell'attività».

Find a way. It is that simple.

The world is exactly like you think it is, and that's why.

Humans are not machines, and some of their energy during the day will go into discussions or activities unrelated to the common task. Within reason, this "time wasting" is acceptable, but it can become a problem in a team that does not have a really positive attitude to the common task