A Quotes
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“An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.”
“An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.”
Source: Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp
“An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.”
“An Attitude of Gratitude Delivers to you the Altitude of Beatitudes”
Source: Risk It, Be Different
“An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.”
“An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.”
“An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.”
Source: Logic, Inductive and Deductive
“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”
“An attitude of thankfulness keeps me centered when every attitude other than thankfulness promises me a center that it can’t find.”
“An attitude of Thanksgiving cannot be reconciled to any notion of entitlement, for the two stand at odds so diametrically opposed that one must be eradicated if the other is to survive. Therefore, we will either choose to be lavishly enriched by an attitude of thanksgiving that will not be diminished by depravity of any kind, or we will spend our lives fleeing from a depravity that we could not elude because we worked to obtain what we declared to be ours but never was.”
“An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”
Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the
single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this
world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the
environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“An attitude will give you heft.”
“An attitude's growth never stops.”
Source: The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success
“An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.”
“An attraction to large predators often seems to be associated with misanthropy, racism and the far right.”
“An attraction to self-discovery and self-expression can be uplifting and assist us combat epic boredom. The toll of writing truthfully as possible can cause the writer to spiral emotionally out of control. Writing’s tempest temperament can prove a fatal attraction and many notable writers succumbed to the dark knight’s powerful sword. Too many writers and a cast of dead poets found themselves dangerously adrift on the flowing river of black ink interlocked in a life and death struggle with the creative streams of impulsion colliding with the rocky pods of madness. All artists must fight off the impulse to surrender to the aftershock of madness. The mad vein of stabbing pain that we might think belongs exclusively to ourselves is in actuality the capstone of the blood sport known as communal anxiety.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An attractive job title is often used as makeup or consolation for an unattractive salary.”
“An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.”
“An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.”
“An audacious proposition is designed to interrupt the regularly scheduled broadcast to deliver some new information.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“An audience can be like a pack of wolves.”
“An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.”
“An audience gets to hang onto the characters for the rest of their lives if they want. I think it's great that the fans do that. It's just not too practical for a man like myself because I have to move on.”
“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”
Source: How to Write
“An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.”
“An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.”
“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.”
“An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.”
“An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.”
“An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.”
Source: How Writing Is Written
“An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.”
Source: A Book
“An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.”
“An audience is the perfect thing to unleash venom and hate on. It doesn't necessarily mean you hate everyone in the audience but when you've got a so-called adoring mass in front of you, it's a perfect target for that kind of disgust. Sometimes you find yourself in a position where you're venting your disgust on an audience and a lot of them keep coming back 'cos they actually like that aspect. In a way that diffuses the feeling and you don't gel the same release.”
“An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.”
Source: The Mask of Apollo
“An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.”
“An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.”
“An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke, I'm going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I'm going to have someone give someone a kiss - it's just going to happen.”
“An audience will let you know if a song communicates. If you see them kind of falling asleep during the song, or if they clap at the end of a song, then they're telling you something about the song. But you can have a good song that doesn't communicate. Perhaps that isn't a song that you can sing to people; perhaps that's a song that you sing to yourself. And some songs are maybe for a small audience, and some songs are for a wide audience. But the audience will let you know pretty quickly.”
“An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.”
“An Aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.”
“An aunt, who though not a midwife was expert in that kind of work, helped bring forth the child, cleaning his face with butter and, to save money, powdering his thighs with some flour scraped from a crust of bread in lieu of talcum. "So you see, my boy, you come from humble stock," his Aunt Eudore would say, acquainting him of these petty details, and from an early age Jean didn't dare hope for any kind of good fortune in the future.”
Source: Downstream
“An Aussie January by Stewart Stafford
Dead air in the fallen forest,
The black goat circled silently,
Three hillside crosses sombre,
January, warm as an Aussie winter.
Boy brandishing a thin, red worm,
Cheerful march on raspberry feet,
Turning left at the silver potatoes,
Leftovers from the gnome’s feast.
4 a.m. wind a rolling bandmaster,
Whipping a flagpole cord to a beat,
Tingling every wind chime around,
The hibernating squirrel missed it.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.”
“An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little.”
“An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.”
“An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.”
“An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.”