Quotes About Attitude

Prefiero ser conocido por mis grandes fracasos que por mis mediocres éxitos», citaba a uno de sus novelistas favoritos.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.

Tom Hiddleston is so fucking nice. It used to be in the past you were either nice, or you were good-looking and an asshole.

Soy un romántico desilusionado o un pesimista esperanzado. Cualquiera de las dos cosas.

It was a stronger, more positive attitude, exhibiting maitri, 'benevolence', which is entailed in acting 'for the sake of others', and this is ultimately 'the highest dharma'.

Life is there to be fought, old fruit. Don't give me any of that doomy, neurotic hogswash.

If there's one thing I hate about religion books, it's that arrogant attitude of smug satisfaction that we get when we think we've produced the ultimate answers to all the deep questions that have bothered the greatest thinkers of the ages. If the answers were so simple, those questions wouldn't still be with us.

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

Hateful things sometimes befall the hateful but the hateful are not rendered lovable thereby.

Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

Does the Convocation make the laws?" Erskyll asked. Hozhet was perplexed. "Make laws, Lord Proconsul? Oh, no. We have laws." There were planets, here and there through the Empire, where an attitude like that would have been distinctly beneficial; planets with elective parliaments, every member of which felt himself obligated to get as many laws enacted during his term of office as possible.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

When you can't change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

Count your blessings. Don't confuse mere inconveniences with real problems.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

A biscuit eater is an ornery dog. He won't hunt anything except his own biscuits. And he'll suck eggs and steal chickens and run coons and jump rabbits. To a bird dog man, a biscuit eater is the lowest form of animal life. Strangers in Mississippi often are puzzled by the expression until natives, who usually eat biscuits instead of light bread, explain that a biscuit eater is a no 'count hound that isn't good for anything except to hunt his meat and biscuits.

They had a toughness and a philosophical attitude which was new to me. Misfortunes which would make the city dweller want to bang his head against a wall were shrugged off with "Aye, well, these things