Quotes About Attitude

It's the set of the sail, and not the gale that determines the way they go.

One person says, "I don't feel like worshiping; therefore I am not going to church. I will wait till I feel like it and then I will go." Another says, "I don't feel like worshiping; therefore I will go to church and put myself in the way of worship." In the process she finds herself blessed and begins, in turn, to bless.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

In a culture that prizes the can-do, self-starter attitude, to be a pessimist is simply to be a complainer – if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. To live in such a culture is to constantly live in the shadow of an obligatory optimism, a novel type of coercion that is pathologized early on in child education in the assessment: "Does not like to play with others.

There is no surer sign of pessimism than an overly-optimistic person.

How are things going?" "Oh, I can't complain…" The greatest complaint of all.

Are you a pessimist?" "On my better days…

There is no better occasion for pessimism than optimism.

But the truth is that I am a pessimist… except when writing about pessimism. I've managed to make pessimism a form of therapy.

Voltaire once described optimism as "a cruel philosophy with a consoling name," which immediately suggests what pessimism might be: a consoling philosophy with a cruel name.

If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.

Bernard did not mind the rats in the cellars and he did not mind the horses. He minded the people on the horses.

Happiness, indeed, becomes not only a prerequisite for work - more and more managers claim to select workers according to their levels of happiness and positivity - but also the very content of the work itself, with positive emotions, attitude and motivations rising as essential psychological features, even more important or essential than skills or technical qualifications.

Seligman proposed not so much a new psychological approach as a new positive attitude that moved basic and applied psychology away from stagnation and focused scholars on the unexploited market target of healthy, normal people.

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.

Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal one passes from the natural attitude of the scientist to the transcendental phenomenological attitude (which, according to phenomenology, is the properly philosophical attitude).

I see racism as institutional: the rules are different for me because I'm black. It's not necessarily someone's specific attitude against me; it's just the fact that I, as a black man, have a much harder time making an art-house movie and getting it released than a white person does about their very white point of view. That's racism.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

Golf was never a religion to me.

Stats are for losers. They relish in them.

If you're relying on winning for happiness, you're going to be a miserable individual.