Quotes About Attitude

They call him Stormy Monday, but he's kind of a dick every single day.

sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new

To think about failure was to invite failure.

When Ellie shook hands, Gennaro said in surprise, "You're a woman." "These things happen," she said, and Grant thought: She doesn't like him, either.

You arrogant little snot (John Hammond)

What don't you care about? Anything, Malcolm said. Because... everything looks different... on the other side. And he smiled.

Irrationality didn't atrophy with disuse. On the contrary, left unattended, the irrational side of man had grown in power and scope.

Do not think ahead, and be cheerful by knowing that no man lives forever.

and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, 'Can I help you,' it's all I can do not to scream, 'Bitch, you can't even help yourself.

There is no such thing as undesirable work," he continued. "There are only people who see certain kinds of work as undesirable. People who use every excuse in the world to justify why they have to do work they hate to do. People who look upon their work as a punishment for who they are and where they stand in the world, rather than as an opportunity to see themselves as they really are.

The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.

It is—first, last, and always—about how you act.

And, if it's true what Don Juan said in Tales of Power, that "The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse

La mayoría de las empresas consideran que las personas son un problema.

What was important was how seriously I took to playing the game he had created here.

The Department of the Army's Field Manual 3-05.70 states about survival: A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude of the individual involved.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Happiness is a decision.

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

Amos was not merely an optimist. He willed himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it and the second time when it happens.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice

It actually went pretty well, until they got onto the topic of marijuana. "So you got caught smoking weed your freshman and sophomore years," said the Rockets interviewer. "What happened your junior year?" Williams just shook his head and said, "They stopped testing me. And if you're not going to test me, I'm gonna smoke!

there must be some connection between his excessively romantic attitude toward computer programming and his appeal to women.