#attitudes

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste! But what of those things which you actually didn't like, not because you were not supposed to like them, not because to dislike them was considered a mark of refinement and education - but because you actually found them distasteful? The very idea annoyed me. How could you know? It involved a problem of choice. I would have to weigh many things carefully before deciding and there would be some things that would cause quite a bit of trouble, simply because I had never formed a personal attitude toward so much. I had accepted the accepted attitudes and it had made life seem simple ... ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#choice #preferences #attitude

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#altering #attitudes #beings #discovery #generation

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy. ↗

— Rob Walton

#always #attitudes #behavior #check #double

Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in public. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#barack #barack obama #began #came #change

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. ↗

— Paul Harvey

#agencies #aid #attitudes #come #dependency

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#guys #i #know #love #readers

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older. ↗

— Keith Henson

#any #attitudes #bright #case #changing

Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#anything #attitudes #charles #had #him