Quotes About Attitude

It takes just about the same amount of time to be a nice guy as it does to be a jerk.

but instead of the can-do spirit we now have the can-do-with-some-government-funding spirit. And it's hard to get an inspirational heart-warmer out of that.

If I've sounded a wee bit overwrought in recent columns, it's because America is seizing up before our eyes. And I'm a little bewildered by how many Americans can't see it. I see that chap at LaGuardia with Don't Tread on Me on his chest and government bureaucrats in his pants. And I wonder if America's exceptional attitudinal swagger isn't providing a discreet cover for the withering of liberty. Sometimes an in-your-face attitude blinds you to what's going on under your nose.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

I believe I should be able to treat my hamburger like food, not like infectious fucking medical waste.

With my little short-shorts a permanent affront, I was quickly becoming a sullen, moody, difficult little bastard.

What you hear from other Italians is that Naples isn't even Italy. "But that's a very Italian attitude to start with, a not-quite nation of city-states for whom the next village over will always be the worst place on earth.

I'm an asshole. You should probably be an asshole too.

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

I was relieved to find her attitude to myself suggested nothing more hostile than complete indifference.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true that she had married Bob Duport. She nodded; not exactly conveying, it seemed to me, that by some happy chance their union had introduced her to an unexpected terrestrial paradise.

His physical attitude suggested a holy man doing penance vicariously for the sin of those in his spiritual care.

Lovell was an odd mixture of realism and romanticism; more specifically, he was, like quite a lot of people, romantic about being a realist.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can..

Understanding state is the key to understanding change and achieving excellence. Our behavior is the result of the state we're in.

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." —W. Somerset Maugham

that people who produce outstanding results think this way.