Quotes About Attitude

What made it worse was the clueless attitude of the Wall Street executives whose collective asses we were pulling out of the fire. Just before I took office, for example, the leaders of most of the major banks had gone ahead and authorized more than a billion dollars in year-end bonuses for themselves and their lieutenants, despite having already received TARP funds to prop up their stock prices.

Show me someone who's okay with losing," he said, "and I'll show you a loser.

a cynical electorate is a self-centered electorate.

Cynicism is a choice, and hope is a better choice.

there's good crazy and bad crazy

That's like hating a copperhead, Rafe said. She is what she is. Don't waste your time on it.

The answer, I think, is that positivity is not so much our condition or our mood as it is part of our ideology—the way we explain the world and think we ought to function within it.

algunos de los regímenes más despiadados y autoritarios del mundo han exigido de sus súbditos un optimismo irredento y un constante buen humor.

En 2004, un estudio puso de manifiesto que el optimismo no aportaba beneficio alguno, en términos de supervivencia, a los que sufrían cáncer de pulmón

Hasta el ámbito académico, que uno podía considerar un reducto seguro para los gruñones y misántropos, está empezando a sufrir las incursiones del pensamiento positivo.

la persona que sabe trabajar en equipo es, por definición, alguien "positivo". Alguien que siempre luce una sonrisa, que no se queja, que no les da demasiadas vueltas a las cosas, y que se somete con buen humor a lo que le pida el jefe.

esa chifladura general de los estadounidenses con el pensamiento positivo no sirvió para hacerles más felices.

El pensamiento positivo parece obligatorio en este mundo del cáncer de pecho, hasta el punto de que si alguien es infeliz tiene casi que disculparse

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are.

Zeke embodied the contradiction of his generation: jaded about the fate of the world, idealistic about personal prospects.

What Aunt Tess loved to say was: "Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up your pace.

My prior experience with young men was to hear them swear 'Christ almighty in the craphouse!' at any dress with too many buttons.

It's the worst of bad manners to ridicule the small gesture...Small, stepwise changes in personal habits aren't trivial. Ultimately they will, or won't, add up to having been the thing that mattered.

always tried to be positive with her, although I'd learned

Roscoe and his friends are studying the heat of the fire and the level of oil in the pot with the attitude men take on occasions like this, feeling the weight of their supervisory powers. Sugar smiles. A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once.