Quotes About Attitudes

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.

I'm a positive person. I just want to chill, have fun and be productive. And just hope that through Hip-Hop and different vessels and vehicles we can change people's attitudes.

It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

Stories and metaphors are compelling ways to communicate information and change attitudes and behavior.

We typically don't know enough individually to form knowledgeable, nuanced views about new technologies and scientific developments. We simply have no choice but to adopt the positions of those we trust. Our attitudes and those of the people around us thus become mutually reinforcing. And the fact that we have a strong opinion makes us think that there must be a firm basis for our opinion, so we think we know a lot, more than in fact we do.

I really do believe that our attitudes are shaped much more by our social groups than they are by facts on the ground. We are not great reasoners. Most people don't like to think at all, or like to think as little as possible. And by most, I mean roughly 70 percent of the population. Even the rest seem to devote a lot of their resources to justifying beliefs that they want to hold, as opposed to forming credible beliefs based only on fact.

So I figured I'd leave the area, because I had no ties there anyway except for this girl I was seeing. We had conflicting attitudes: I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive. I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate has an expiration date.

I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.

Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

Our attitudes are fostered by a society built on ideas of dominance, where the solution to crises are force and action, rather than reflection and compromise.

I'm like most people in America. I'm conservative on some things, and I'm liberal on other things.

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.

We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

Misogyny or misandry is not a status or a belief

It is ironic that the Great Depression was produced by government but was blamed on the private enterprise system. The Federal Reserve System explained in its 1933 annual report how much worse things would have been if the Federal Reserve had not behaved so well, yet the Federal Reserve was the chief culprit in making the depression as deep as it was. So the government produced the depression, the private enterprise system got blamed for it, and there was a tremendous change in attitudes.

Åžtiu c? exist? un singur suflet, r?sfrânt în mii de atitudini trec?toare.

It reveals opinions and attitudes that are malleable, showing the plasticity of what in any given present moment one typically presents as a rock of certainty.

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.