Quotes About Attitude

Treat a man like a dog, he'll act like a dog. Treat a man with respect, he'll remember that too.

It turns out our attitude toward technology adoption becomes significant—at least in a marketing sense—any time we are introduced to products that require us to change our current mode of behavior or to modify other products and services we rely on. In academic terms, such change-sensitive products are called discontinuous innovations. The contrasting term, continuous innovations, refers to the normal upgrading of products that does not require us to change behavior.

California is a bad influence.

And was al his chiere, as in his herte.

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

The Lord, in His kindness, seeing the attitude of His children, and knowing that they would need guidance, gave to us the Ten Commandments, and other commandments that have been given from time to time, to help us to find happiness. You observe people running to and fro in the world, seeking happiness but not finding it. If they would only pause long enough to accept the Lord's advice happiness would follow, but they will find it in no other way.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

He was strong and unforgiving, a bully, and I saw that he would be that way for the rest of his life; and for this same reason I suspected that he would always be successful in whatever he did, and I despised and feared him for that.

If we accept the unacceptable today, what's the outlook for tomorrow going to be?

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt