“Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.”
Your outlook shapes your reality more than your circumstances do — at least according to these thinkers. This collection covers mindset, perspective, and the daily choice between seeing the glass as half full, half empty, or just a glass that needs washing.
“Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.”
“Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.”
“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.”
“Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!”
“Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?”
“The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.”
“The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.”
“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
“Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.”
“It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.”
“It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.”
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
“There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.”
“Surfers have the most attitude.”
“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.”
“Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.”