Quotes About Attitude

Positive energy is like muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets the more powerful you become. Repetition is the key and the more you focus on positive energy the more it becomes your natural state.

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love. It's much more powerful that way.

If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.

It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute.

In the face of all this, it is your culture that will be the driving force to create the resiliency, toughness, passion, and attitude to overcome the obstacles in your way.

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

KVETCH:(Yiddish) verb: to gripe or fret; noun: a chronic complainer, a whiner

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

The first organization whose atmosphere and attitude will tolerate the use of nanomation technology will be the first organization to swallow its market whole.

But that wasn't how Carter rolled.

You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl." -- Benjamin East

Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with that Old World toffee-nosed attitude: The United States of America's got no culture, not deep down.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. EPICTETUS, 1st–2nd century

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it."5

Events in the world affect us only through our interpretations of them, so if we can control our interpretations, we can control our world.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. EPICTETUS, 1st–2nd century1

the lesson Buddha and Aurelius had taught centuries earlier: "Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Western philosophy has been worshipping reason and distrusting the passions for thousands of years.4 There's a direct line running from Plato through Immanuel Kant to Lawrence Kohlberg. I'll refer to this worshipful attitude throughout this book as the rationalist delusion.

cognitive triad

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Those with a fixed mindset tend to learn things in a superficial way, just enough to prove they can do it. That's bad enough, but it gets worse. When people

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer, author (b. 1940)

Either live in thrall to statistics or make them your friends.