My mother once told me that no women is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.
I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.
Up is never where you are now.
Have an attitude of gratitude.
I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.
I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain't-got kind of stamina.
I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith?
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
My attitude going into training camp as a rookie was to impress. I wanted to impress my teammates, my coaches, the owners, everybody. I wanted them to say, ?This kid is special. This kid has the right mind, the right skills, the right motivation?.
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.
When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists. An artist is someone who makes art too. He did not invent it. How it started — "to hell with it." It is obvious that it has no progress. The idea of space is given him to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. He fills it with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.
I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
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