Quotes About Attitude

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles---for then he is off his guard.

everyone desires to achieve old age, that is to say a condition in which one can say: Today is bad, and day by day it will get worse - until at last the worst of all arrives.

is it at all possible for you to prevent your washed-up cynicism from completely coloring everything?

The simpler way to say it is that perspective matters.

Their attitude seemed to result from incomprehension rather than cruelty, but as Tolstoy would have said, what's the difference in the end?

It used to be 'Two hip replacements today—yay!'" he recalled. "Then it became 'Two hip replacements today—ugh.

such episodes are shrugged off.

Neff's philosophy is, as he put it, "hard on behavior but soft on the person.

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour.

I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

Except this "if we're meant to meet, we'll meet" attitude isn't truly relaxed. So we're not going to commend you for it. This attitude is more passive than relaxed. A passivity born of entitlement. You are owed a soul mate; this has been promised to you since birth. Everybody knows that. So why worry?

If you loathe your job, the situation is improved if you can do it in your underwear. Drunk. *

That is self-pity and it is dangerous because it signals a lack of accountability for one's mental state and, worse, the outcome of one's life.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

There's no such thing as a lousy job-only lousy men who don't care to do it.

We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?' she whispered. 'No, we never had to.

Avoid Believing Things Are Better Than They Really Are When You Are On A Peak, Or Worse Than They Really Are When You Are In A Valley. Make Reality Your Friend.

la seguridad que Hem y Haw tenían en sí mismos se fue convirtiendo en la arrogancia propia del éxito.

you do not learn in a Valley, you can become bitter. If you truly learn something valuable, you can become better. But if that was true, what was it that he needed