Quotes About Attitude

We discover that every state of consciousness arises—and can only arise—within ourselves. One and the same event can provoke one person to laughter, another to tears, while a third remains completely indifferent; all because each is merely projecting outwardly his own inward attitude, and it is only this inward attitude which provokes our response, not the external events themselves.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

What happens to us is not as important as how we respond.

She wasn't afraid that Nils wouldn't accept the news well. He always accepted everything with equanimity, because he said everything had its reason.

Know what you get when you rearrange the letters in Nate Wetherill? HATE WILL ENTER.

The astute journalist had commented that Russians enjoy themselves without smiling, always taking their pleasure sadly.

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

El me dijo que cuando la gente juzga que un cambio es bueno, lo acepta. Tu actitud hacia el cambio se modificó en el momento en que tomaste conciencia de sus efectos.

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

What you believe will make a difference in the difference you make.

I liked her scowl and I liked her freedom to wear it.

She rolled her shoulders over a corset that gave her the general appearance of the prow of a battleship, and curled one loose strand around her finger in a gesture that would have been coquettish, were she young.

I didn't know a computer could sound bitter.

Dust caught himself smirking again. How hard could it be, to let the smile happen?

If beaks could smirk, she would have sworn him to be smirking.

She folded her arms across her chest and leaned back in her chair, aware of how defensive her body language was and not caring at all.

He held himself right, collected, confident, but without the swaggering she was used to seeing on successful males. As if he didn't feel the need to constantly claim his space and assent his presence.

As far as Benedick was concerned, cynicism was a toy for children.

I woke early, ship's time, alone in my bunk and wearing the kind of bad attitude that takes you hate living in your own skin.

At least somebody's sense of humor was intact.

You know, the more upset you are, the more sarcastic you get.

The Parisian attitude toward sorcery-that its public practice was little more interesting and certainly more gauche than sex in the doorways or pissing in the gutter-was refreshing.

Brats," he muttered under his breath. "They take after you, my lord," Alienor said sweetly.

Carelessness, when it's continual, is as bad as intentional jerkiness.