Quotes About Attitudes

What people will - or will not - laugh at is mainly determined by their social conditioning.

There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products of economic circumstance at the time.

To voice one's curmudgeonly thoughts - 'I hate tattoos,' 'If that kid says 'like' even one more time, I'm going to fire him,' and such things, instantly labels one as a geezer.

I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies.

It's quite amazing how tattoos in general have been more and more accepted.

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

Other studies have similarly revealed that to some degree, people rise or fall to the level of others' expectations.

Since she's discovered men would rather drown than nibble, she does just fine.

In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in the front row at your aunt's funeral, but those are the circles I avoid like the plague or, for that matter, the clap.

Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

That's the way girls were--they always laughed. Because they were bitches.

I learned that my emotional truth was being dictated by my subconscious perspectives of life, by the definitions of life that had been imposed on me as a child, by the subconscious attitudes that I had adopted because of the emotional traumas I had experienced as a child.

The way we do that is to change the attitudes and beliefs within us that tell us that we are not Lovable.

Philosophy is all about our beliefs and attitudes about ourselves and the world. Doing philosophy, therefore, is first of all the activity of stating, as clearly and as convincingly as possible, what we believe and what we believe in.

Stalin's program was bound to appeal to Bolsheviks who harbored such attitudes, and his argumentation shows how conscious of this he was. "We cannot live like gypsies without grain reserves,

Stalin's program was bound to appeal to Bolsheviks who harbored such attitudes, and his argumentation shows how conscious of this he was. "We cannot live like gypsies without grain reserves," he said in the speech of July 9, 1928. "Isn't it clear that a great state covering a sixth of the earth's surface can't get along without grain reserves for internal and external needs?

Certainly some researchers are thinking more realistically about the market's prospects and reaching better-informed positions on its future, but these are not the names that grab the headlines and thus influence public attitudes.

Women were always happy for a chance to educate a boy when he was young; Mat thought they assumed they could educate him out of becoming a man if they tried hard enough.

Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough? If you take care of it. What do you have to do? Lot's of things. You've been watching me. Will you show me all of them? Sure. Is it hard? Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes that's hard. Oh. After a while I see he is sitting down again. Then he says, Dad? What? Will I have the right attitudes? I think so, I say. I don't think that will be any problem at all.

Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough? If you take care of it. What do you have to do? Lot's of things. You've been watching me. Will you show me all of them? Sure. Is it hard? Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes that's hard.

Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes that's hard.

My two dads had opposing attitudes and that affected the way they thought.