Attitude Quotes - Page 38

• A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life.

  Jeff Olson

  Philosophy, Positive Life, Action

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.20, Greenleaf Book Group

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• No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerised the subject.

  Henry Adams

  Strong, Men, Years

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.101, Booklassic

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• Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Evil, Different, Individual

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Religious, Intelligent, Criticism

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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• To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Player, Needs, Talent

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• Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in the mainstream media. With succinct and elegant prose, and with no axe to grind, he exposes the hypocrisy of Western attitudes toward Iran.

  Hooman Majd

  Media, Iran, Voice

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• Most players unfortunately go to the casinos with an attitude that makes it even easier for casinos to psyche them into losing. Most except to lose; therefore, it's not too surprising when they achieve their goal.

  Henry Tamburin

  Player, Goal, Casinos

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• Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.

  Criss Jami

  Fashion, Mean, Men

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• When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

  Criss Jami

  Justice, World News, Ruins

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

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• I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.

  Charles de Lint

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Religious, Believe, Men

  "Nihilism On A Religious Soil". Short story by Nikolai Berdyaev, May 6, 1907.

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• But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Judging, Faults

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, Organization, World

  "Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anais Nin, 1995.

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• In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.

  Paul Robeson

  Responsibility, Artist, Opportunity

  "Here I Stand". Book by Paul Robeson, p. 124, 1958.

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• If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

  Anwar Sadat

  Capacity, Change Yourself, Changed

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• The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Winning, Trying, Serious

  "Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol". www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

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• God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sick, People, Criticism

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Thinking, Cliffs

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a lot of pretensions, a lot of the attitude that goes along with it was a little difficult for me to deal with.

  Girl Talk

  Tired, People, Littles

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I don't get this shitty attitude that only gays should care about gay issues and only women should care about women's issues.

  Sarah Silverman

  Gay, Issues, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

  Steve Coogan

  Morality, Creation, Modern

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.

  Bill Reid

  Believe, Ravens, Self

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• Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Religious, Art, Inspiration

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• From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

  Idries Shah

  Culture, Causes, Economic

  Idries Shah (1974). “The Elephant in the Dark”, p.11, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Health is more than the mere absence of disease, it's the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a vitality that has to be worked for each and every day of your life. You cannot get it in a bottle or from Dr. Phil.  Its got to be gotten through diet and execise and rest and recreation and attitudes of mind working all together every day of your life and then, young men can become supermen and old men can become older.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Men, Dr Phil, Mind

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