Quotes About Attitude

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

Personal charm is a great help. You can sit there and be an awful ass, but if you have personal charm, you can really put it over on the general public

He summed me up very accurately for what I was: a lady, so called-a sort of a snob-and totally insecure.

I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Lazarus, come forth. Not unless you bring me my top hat and stick. Stay where you are then, you snob. Not at all. I'm coming forth.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Because the middle classes and the nouveaux riches welcomed gas, water closets and piped-in water, the upper classes drew back. Many a denizen of a sprawling, stony-cold country estate looked on "mod cons" as slightly uncouth, over-eager and—worst of all—middle-class.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.

No man lived a more strong and beautiful life than did John Wesley, and his view of death was that whenever it came he would be found at his duty; and the transition from that duty to heaven's service would be a natural one. Instead of death, let the Lord be expected; and the true attitude of life will be that of quiet pursuit of duty and constant readiness to greet Him.

God did not begin to love man when Jesus came. Jesus came to roll back the curtain and show man the heart that was eternal, the love that was always there. Christianity is not God's alteration of attitude toward man. It is not that in the old dispensation He was a policeman, and in this a father. He has always been a father. He never changes.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle.

He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists… His respectability was spontaneous and sudden, a rebellion against rebellion.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Having grown rapidly, many PC software companies were stretched to the limit simply building their programs. With customers clamoring for new products, testing inevitably had to take a backseat. In addition, though it was eroding, there remained a pejorative attitude toward testing: "Let the customer test the program." That saved the builder money and time, but it frustrated buyers, who came to view the first release of a program as a gamble. Microsoft

Since he brought an exacting and grim seriousness to his tasks in the best of times, he found this same demeanor effective in the worst of times.

He felt people at IBM worshiped hierarchies. Each employee worried about his little piece of turf and nothing else. Diamond still recalled with amazement the time an IBM programmer, hacking away at OS/2, watched the program crash to a halt. The guy studied his screen for a minute, then said, "Wow, what a nasty problem. Glad that isn't in my code." He restarted his PC and went back to work, never even reporting the bug. At

Pesimismul nu este o viziune asupra lumii, ci ocuparea unei pozi?ii strategice în fa?a imprevizibilului.

Mother is the sacred teacher of this cycle. She passes on her lessons through her body by example, guidance, attitude, energy, vibration.

Sam's doctor said to him, "The good news is that the pain is in your head." But I am in my head, Sam thought.

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you