Quotes About Attitude

When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason - we talk about freeing ourselves from the shackles of the rational mind and that sort of thing - but no belief was more central to Lewis's mind than the belief that it is eminently, fully rational to be responsive to the enchanting power of stories.

He's defiant, even when challenged by law enforcement.

It is not enough to feel reverence; one must act reverently.

You can change what is written in your horoscope. By acting at your lowest good, you can turn an otherwise very good horoscope into a very challenging life. But by acting by your highest good you can definitely transform an astrological lemon of a chart into terrestrial lemonade. The sugar is consciousness.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.

As a rule, Heather didn't believe in pity parties.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

Living adventurously is nothing more than an attitude you charge at life with.

It's called optimism — but I'm losing the hang of it fast.

Do you have to sound so damned indifferent to it all? Here we are talking about how we're likely to be dead in a few hours and you're acting like it's only a minor inconvenience. ~"Spirey & the Queen

I haven't needed anything big enough from you to justify being pleasant, and I doubt I ever will.

I don't think there is anyone I've ever met who has been more passionate about music than me, but rock 'n' roll has never been about just music. It is music, attitude, personality, persona, myth, legend.

Losing has changed my whole persona about fighting.

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

How we choose to handle situations as people is always a personal choice.