Quotes About Attitude

The effects of high optimism on decision making are, at best, a mixed blessing, but the contribution of optimism to good implementation is certainly positive. The main benefit of optimism is resilience in the face of setbacks.

people tend to be risk averse in the domain of gains and risk seeking in the domain of losses.

An impressive series of studies by Thomas Åstebro sheds light on what happens when optimists receive bad news.

And here, the effects are not those you might imagine. Being in a good mood is a mixed blessing, and bad moods have a silver lining. The costs and benefits of different moods are situation-specific.

Los datos sugieren que el optimismo es algo muy extendido, pertinaz y costoso.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Your political preference determines the arguments that you find compelling. If you like the current health policy, you believe its benefits are substantial and its costs more manageable than the costs of alternatives. If you are a hawk in your attitude toward other nations, you probably think they are relatively weak and likely to submit to your country's will.

act calm and kind regardless of how you feel

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person—you already feel fortunate. An optimistic attitude is largely inherited, and it is part of a general disposition for well-being, which may also include a preference for seeing the bright side of everything.

The stubbornness of an intelligent person is seen as likely to be justified and may actually evoke respect, but intelligence in an envious and stubborn person makes him more dangerous.

you were primed to think of old age, you would tend to act old, and acting old would reinforce the thought of old age.

We slough off the responsibility to create ourselves by shrugging and claiming, "That's just the way I am.

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

When you're young you say, "If I become a vegetable, pull the plug!" You get older, you hedge a little. "If I'm a turnip, kill me. If I'm a trendier vegetable, like radicchio, mist me twice a day and trim the wilted leaves."

Now, some people will bemoan this fact, wag their fingers in your direction, and tell you sternly that you should live every minute of your life as though it were your last, which only goes to show that some people would spend their final ten minutes giving other people dumb advice. The

most people do pretty well when things go pretty bad.

Si guardano. Alcuni, non si sa mai, si piazzano davanti un foglio e mettono le bic in posizione di attacco. No, no, e inutile prendere appunti. Cercate solo di ascoltare. - Si pone allora il problema dell'atteggiamento. Che cosa ne è di un corpo in un'aula scolastica, se non ha più l'alibi della penna a sfera e del foglio bianco?

There has been a change in attitude, though.

They really were insufferable, she thought, these pampered millennial snowflakes with their yoga mats and their designer leggings and their contempt for concepts such as hard work and competition. She only wished she'd brought along a packet of L&Bs. One whiff of smoke would have sent them scurrying.

Patience was not an American virtue.

Sammy, wouldn't you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?" "Naw. I just figure to roll on, stackin' days, you know, till the day I fuck up big enough the future gets canceled. Or else all planned out for me, maybe. There's a somewhat likely chance of that." "Man, Sammy, I can't live thinking that way" "Well,I don't think about it.

It was at this moment, chided by his old and present rival, that Shade decided it was time to revert to the shitkicker verities. Brazen dash, rough talk, and an ounce or two of mean were clearly required.

A velhice também faz isso: de repente todas as pessoas começam a se dirigir a você no diminutivo: calmantezinho, remedinho, incomodozinho. Como se o diminutivo minimizasse os problemas da idade.

I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.