Quotes About Attitude

As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.

I enjoy where I am and I don't have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, or Jeffrey Wright. They're not the lead of every movie they're in, but every time you see them they're really good.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral, said the Wizard. In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.

She was a sour-sass soul with a rubbery face.

Stinging words! You re critical of everyone," observes Iris. "Oh, not everyone," says Clara in an offhand manner. "Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.

You're critical of everyone. Oh, not everyone. Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born

Sometimes I think that vengeance is habit forming too. A stiffness of the attitude.

Sing a hymn to rectitude, Ye forward-thinking multitude. Advance in humble gratitude For strictest rules of attitude. To elevate the Common Good In Brotherhood and Sisterhood We celebrate authority. Fraternity, Sorority, United, pressing onward, we Restrict the ills of liberty. There is no numinosity Like Power's generosity In helping curb atrocity. Bear down on the rod and foil the child.

I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

The simple, decisive question was: How do you respond to expectations?

The conduct of our lives is the true reflection of our thoughts. —MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Keep a sense of humor. Over and over, I see that levity helps diffuse practically any difficult situation—which

A happy home wasn't a place that I could furnish, but an attitude of mind I must develop.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

The conduct of our lives is the true reflection of our thoughts. —Michel de Montaigne, "Of the Education of Children

People have an inborn disposition that's set within a certain range, but they can boost themselves to the top of their happiness range or push themselves down to the bottom of their happiness range by their actions.