Quotes About Attitude

In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and their performance. Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them.

Sempre que achamos que o problema está "lá fora"; este pensamento em si é o problema.

No matter how much we worked on our attitude and behavior, our efforts were ineffective because, despite our actions and our words, what we really communicated to him was, "You aren't capable. You have to be protected." We began to realize that if we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.

In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and their performance. Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them. They are value driven; and if their value is to produce good quality work, it isn't a function of whether the weather is conducive to it or not.

our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is the center of our life.

your happiness depends on (1) genetics, (2) circumstances, and (3) things you can control.

The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility. Reactive vs. Proactive Voice There's nothing I can do vs. Let's look at our alternatives That's just the way I am vs. I can choose a different approach He makes me so mad vs. I control my own feelings They won't allow that vs. I can create an effective presentation I have to do that vs. I will choose an appropriate response I can't vs. I choose I must vs. I prefer If only vs. I will

Our language, for example, is a very real indicator of the degree to which we see ourselves as proactive people.

A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

can be happy and accept those things that at present we can't control, while we focus our efforts on the things that we can.

It is not what others do or even our own mistakes that hurt us the most; it is our response to those things.

Simple way to understand paradigms is to see them as maps.

It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.

The way we see things is the source of the way we think and the way we act.

THE "HAVE'S" AND THE "BE'S

In the words of Abraham Maslow, "He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail." This is another factor that affects the "young lady/old lady" perception difference. Right brain and left brain people tend to look at things in different ways.

It's not logical; it's psychological.

I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether

accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them.

Lo que nos hiere o daña no es lo que nos sucede, sino nuestra respuesta a lo que nos sucede.