Quotes About Attitude

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Nauczy?am si?, ?e albo akceptujemy to, co daje nam ?ycie, albo ga?niemy.

Judge Smails: It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is the man who can smile, / When his shorts aren't too tight in the seat.

The "great and profound mistake which my typical man makes in regard to his day," he elaborates, is that even though he doesn't particularly enjoy his work (seeing it as something to "get through"), "he persists in looking upon those hours from ten to six as 'the day,' to which the ten hours preceding them and the six hours following them are nothing but a prologue and epilogue.

Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness—he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him. I

he came to realize a simple truth: Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness—he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him.

adopt the craftsman mindset first and then the passion follows.

After a bad or disrupting occurrence in your life, Fredrickson's research shows, what you choose to focus on exerts significant leverage on your attitude going forward. These simple choices can provide a "reset button" to your emotions.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. —SIR JOHN LUBBOCK THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE AND THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 1892

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you

Fate bestows its rewards on those who put themselves in the proper attitude to receive them.

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

Axiom #3: When told how to apply sermons specifically, most people over-congratulate themselves on how biblically they already live while thinking of others who could really use the sermon.

Tutored by secularists, they want God on their own terms, and prefer a worship service in which there's a lot of smiling.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

Nothing is truly impossible. It's all a matter of looking at things in just the right way.

If we treat him like an enemy, that's all he'll ever be.

Era mais fácil não se importar, ir com a maré e se preocupar com um dia de cada vez.

he shrugged. The gesture was his armour. His defence. His indifference was a cloak of invisibility behind which he could hide.

El mensaje de Nervo es simple: si siembras un pensamiento negativo, cosecharás un pobre hábito. Siembra un pobre hábito y, en el mejor de los casos, cosecharás un futuro incierto.

Los pretextos los convertimos en "explicaciones lógicas"; los miedos preferimos llamarlos "precauciones acertadas" y las pobres expectativas han pasado a ser "una manera más realista de ver la vida".

Nunca te expongas a ideas negativas,