Quotes About Attitude

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

I know I've had an attitude that can explode, but I'm trying my best to not step out of bounds.

Chucks are cooler when they're dirty. I actually stepped on somebody's the other day because they were too clean.

When I stepped on the court, I expected to win, no matter who I played against.

If you have the mentality that Jon Jones has when he steps into the cage, no one will beat you on the mat.

I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

Anti-populism is all about despair. Its attitude toward ordinary humans is bitter. Its hope for human redemption is nil. Its vision of the common good is bleak. Its dark mood gives us books with titles like In Defense of Elitism and Against Democracy.

One more thing about the backlash personality type: every single one of the bitter self-made men of my youth was a believer in the power of positive thinking. If you just had a sunny disposish and kept everlastingly at it, they thought, you were bound to succeed. The contradiction between their professed positiveness and their actual negativity about nearly everything never seemed to occur to them.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

You know you're only old if you want to be.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

All of us, young and old, need to be reminded that our attitude is something we choose. "Most people," Abraham Lincoln said, "are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Most people," Abraham Lincoln said, "are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

As we should know by now, it is as easy to make fun of religious or scientific visionaries as it is to idolize them. Which attitude is adopted depends on whether or not they tell you what you want to hear.

it is as easy to make fun of religious or scientific visionaries as it is to idolize them. Which attitude is adopted depends on whether or not they tell you what you want to hear.

His voice, the very sound of rolling eyes.

Sometimes it's the ones who claim they're progressive who are the worst, because they act like they are the very boundary between the possible and the impossible, and they never let you cross them.

When you don't know anything, imagining you know something certainly does cheer you up." "It's the way of the optimist.

The same self-reinforcing tendency that perpetuates an attitude can also magnify attitude changes--particularly in the negative direction. A single bad experience can frighten you so that you get a negative feeling each time you encounter anything related to the cause of the bad experience.