“Listing What You Have: Internalize the attitude that regardless of how many things you do not have, you can still be happy and grateful if you keep your focus on what you do have. Make a list of possessions, talents, and good qualities you have and whenever you catch yourself becoming obsessed with something you lack, review your list.” IfsStillsAttitudeQualityFocusTalentBecomingGratitudeGratefulPossessionListsObsessedReviewsGood QualityHappy And Grateful Author:Zelig Pliskin
“Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.” WorldLongReasonCareUsedLostSpeakLanguageBornAttitudeSeeingBecomingUniversalIllDon't CareHearingTongueRejectsSuspectsSpeakersPopularityInsultedFuseSpeak EnglishInsufferableEnglish Speaking Book:There's a Country in My Cellar Source: There's a Country in My Cellar
“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.” MadeBookSeemsAttitudeBecomingSacredChange Your Attitude Author:Lev Grossman