“Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.” CharacterIndividualNaturalResultsAttitudeHealthDependsHealthyDegreesCapacityIllnessSurrenderPsychicsDisturbanceClimaxPotency Book:The Discovery of the Orgone Source: The Discovery of the Orgone
“The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.” PeoplePersonsWaitingEffortAttitudeAwarenessGreatnessHugeListeningDegreesNewsOrdinaryMachinesEntertainmentSensesConsumersAnalysisGoodsWakingVehicleHeroismOddsEarningExceptionalPassivityOrdinary Person Author:Marshall McLuhan
“I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I was coming into it with a certain degree of outsider attitude, and I didn't have a long-term plan. But I think the way it's worked out, it's sort of warped into what I suppose you could say is my own genre. If people like my books, they have some idea of what the next one will be like.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayLongBookIdeasWholeCertainNextTermMy OwnAttitudeIssuesPlansDegreesGenreLong TermOutsidersThe Next One Author:William Gibson
“Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.” AbleSuccessOrderNationsSocialRaceAttitudeEconomyStrangeDegreesBehaviorDiversitySuccess And FailureSocial OrderCultural DiversityNational EconomyBehavior And Attitude Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a sustained act, subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection . . . Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God . . . It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. If we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.” IfsFeelsMindHeartRealStatesFeelingsSpiritAttitudeLordSubjectsHumilityWillingHolyDegreesWorshipPerfectionHoly SpiritAweAppropriateSincereIntensityState Of MindDelightedAdmiringReal Worship Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.” ThinkingMindLittlesTwoIdeasRealityLyingProcessAttitudeStageTaughtDegreesBehaviorSurfaceAcceptedAllowingTransformedFurniture Author:Charles Stanley
“The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.” PeopleChildrenAgeAttitudeTruth IsDegreesIndifferenceIndulgenceDisdainUnfathomableCondescendingSolemnity Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.” NaturalAttitudeMoralDangerousDangerTasteDegreesJudgmentIntellectualConsciousIncreaseMonstersUnconsciousAestheticEntity Book:The practice of psychotherapy Source: The practice of psychotherapy
“I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.” FeelsDesireCultureAttitudeTaughtDegreesFairsPerceiveContemptNot FairSexual Desire Author:Cris Mazza
“I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsAttitudeCollegeDegreesSettingSettingsExclusiveCollege Degree Author:Colin Meloy
“I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.” PeopleIfsWellsLooksKindPersonsHomeTogetherProcessAttitudeSuccessfulHugeTomorrowDegreesRelateRestaurantsIf I CouldAccuracyPrioritize Author:John C. Maxwell
“Many of them who belong to these countries that were former colonial powers have racist attitudes, but their racist attitude is never displayed to the degree that the America's attitude of racism is displayed. Never.” CountryAmericaAttitudeDegreesRacismFormerRacist Author:Malcolm X