#attitude

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#attitude

Are you in any way qualified? Yes? No? It doesn't matter. In America, "Qualification" is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#attitude #humor #attitude

Yes, you may have your cake and eat it too. I will only take the rest of the world along with all the other cakes in it, thank you! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #life-and-living #attitude

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#desire #motivation #oneself #personality #attitude

In ways that certain of us are uncomfortable about, SNOOTs’ attitudes about contemporary usage resemble religious/political conservatives’ attitudes about contemporary culture. We combine a missionary zeal and a near-neural faith in our beliefs’ importance with a curmudgeonly hell-in-a-handbasket despair at the way English is routinely manhandled and corrupted by supposedly educated people. The Evil is all around us: boners and clunkers and solecistic howlers and bursts of voguish linguistic methane that make any SNOOT’s cheek twitch and forehead darken. A fellow SNOOT I know likes to say that listening to most people’s English feels like watching somebody use a Stradivarius to pound nails: We are the Few, the Proud, the Appalled at Everyone Else. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#grammar #snoot #attitude

Singing is my pleasure, but not in church, for the parson said the gargoyles must remain on the outside, not seek room in the choir stalls. So I sing inside the mountain of my flesh, and my voice is as slender as a reed and my voice has no lard in it. When I sing the dogs sit quiet and people who pass in the night stop their jabbering and discontent and think of other times, when they were happy. And I sing of other times, when I was happy, though I know that these are figments of my mind and nowhere I have been. But does it matter if the place cannot be mapped as long as I can still describe it? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Man is able to snatch everything except one thing, the last of human freedoms: the choice of an attitude under any given set of circumstances to determine his own path. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#choices-and-consequences #freedom #meaning-of-life #attitude

Every negative... Has a positive side... ↗

— Nelson M. Lubao

#life-lessons #lpositive-attitude #right-perspectives #attitude

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand ↗

— Jack Sparrow

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Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. ↗

— Joshua Harris

#god #i-kissed-dating-goodbye #joshua-harris #love #relationship-with-god