Quotes About Attitude

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know? Ah git good vibes aboot this interview the day though man, ken?

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.

From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

An empty stomach is better than full and grief is better than happiness.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

It was almost inevitable. Those who worked directly for the Squires were only too glad to identify themselves with the rulers and make up for their real inferiority by a tighter adherence to the rules of segregation, a harsh and haughty attitude toward their fellows.

It amounts to a diseased attitude—a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority.

All they have to do is refuse to believe it means death. The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

To Baley, it seemed not that the Aurorans were growing more humane in their attitude out of a liking for the humane, but that they were denying the robotic nature of the objects in order to remove the discomfort of having to recognize the fact that the human beings were dependent upon objects of artificial intelligence.

Throughout you have invariably relied on authority or on the past—never on yourselves." His fists balled spasmodically. "It amounts to a diseased attitude—a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority.

An Earthman will give you anything as long as it costs nothing and is worth less

I've already told you that I don't consider love a sport.

She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.

She treated him with the casual kindness usually reserved for other people's pets.

Going around in a sulk will get you nowhere. Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.

El dolor es inevitable, pero el sufrimiento es optativo.»

El orgullo de quien se cree hermosa daba a su andar un ritmo insolente.

The simple recipe for success that Mendel had instilled in his children from the cradle on consisted in never complaining, never asking for anything, striving to be the best in everything you do, and never trusting anyone. Alma had to carry this heavy weight on her back for several decades, until love helped her shed some of it. Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep.

El que es un miserable no se vuelve generoso con los años...se vuelve más miserable.

Multitud de niñas ricas con mente pobre.

la juventud no es una época de la vida sino un estado de ánimo... uno tiene la salud que se merece.

As well as walking erect and disguising his tiredness, he also tried to avoid other symptoms of old age: meanness, mistrust, ill temper, resentment, and bad habits such as no longer shaving every day, repeating the same stories over and over, talking about himself, his ailments, or money.