“Your level of gratitude determines your level of happiness, as well as your potential for success. It's difficult to be happy without gratitude.” WellsDifficultLevelsAttitudeGratitudeDetermineBad DayAttitude Of Gratitude Author:Bob Burg
“Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.” PersonsDifficultAttitudeSpecialDyingTasksDiedAccomplishedAdmirationDeath And DyingDifficult Tasks Author:Sigmund Freud
“I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.” PeopleShowsRunningJobsStuffDifficultRealizingAttitudeWatchesFourSurvivalLettersPersistencePositive AttitudeMusclesMumJumpingUnlikelyDifficult TimesReally HappyJumping OffLiberatorsFlexing Author:Bear Grylls
“It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell.” PeopleFunSexBitsDifficultTermChurchDarkAttitudeDangerousHealthyJokesExcitingCatholicPrimariesImpulseObsessedRudeEroticCatholic ChurchJollyObeseAnorexics Author:Stephen Fry
“I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a lot of pretensions, a lot of the attitude that goes along with it was a little difficult for me to deal with.” PeopleLittlesShowsDifficultDealsAttitudeTiredPretensionJaded Author:Girl Talk
“Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.” YearsHumansMayImportantDifficultSoundAttitudeConditionsSecurityHuman NatureInstitutionsRemainsInvestmentFinancialPassingPassingsCorporationsAffectedInvestorsRegulationTemperamentHingesFinancial Institutions Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.” IfsLongBodyDifficultAttitudeMovementBirdRedLegsFlyingTraditionalNecksBizarreCurvesExquisiteTwigsLong LegsOleanders Book:Out of Africa Source: Out of Africa
“Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.” WayFirstsWellsEndsDifficultAttitudeMorningDignityTreatsContractsCynicismNegativityMaking ChangesDifficult ThingsDignity And Respect Author:Rick Pitino
“A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.” IfsSelfDifficultResultsAttitudeDoubtToo MuchDoorsEasierCommunicateCompassionateSuspicionSelf CenteredNarcissisticWise Man Once SaidSelf AbsorbedEgocentricSocial Interaction Author:Dalai Lama
“People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.” PeopleHumansDifficultAttitudeRightsHuman RightsSizePopulationChineseAnnoyed Author:Peter Ustinov
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” InspirationalMotivationalSuccessDifficultLeadershipAttitudeSuccessfulPositivePerspectiveTasksInspirational AttitudePositivityMoving OnPositive AttitudeOutcomesMy AttitudeMental AttitudePositive Thinking And AttitudeWinning AttitudeBest AttitudePositive Thinking AttitudeGreat AttitudeDifficult TasksLife AttitudePositive Mental AttitudeAttitude And LifeGreat Positive AttitudeShort Positive AttitudeAttitudes And SuccessInspirational Positive AttitudePositive Attitude And SuccessCan Do AttitudeMotivational AttitudeCool AttitudePositive Outcome Author:William James
“In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.” KnowsWaySometimesDreamLightSpeakDifficultAttitudeSituationSolutionsKindlesDifficult Situations Author:Carl Jung
“I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins." I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.” WantPastDifficultAttitudePiecesModernSubjectsNew YorkSlaveInnocentSuspectsArticlesAncestorNew York TimesFamily History Author:Laura Lippman
“It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.” IfsSaidEasyDifficultAttitudeDemocracyDrugRegardForgivingProductionsLeagueSincerityAggressiveOne TimeRunnersThey SaidNever Forgive Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Now what's important is that they have an attitude. Everybody has a look, but not everybody has cultivated what their stage persona is. And so when you're dealing with actors, it just makes it more difficult, because you have to help them come up with one. You know, Johnny Depp has no Johnny Depp character when he's onstage. You haven't seen An Evening With Johnny Depp at Carnegie Hall.” KnowsLooksImportantCharacterHelpingActorsDifficultAttitudeStageHavensCome UpEveningHallsPersonaWhat's ImportantCarnegieCarnegie Hall Author:Bruce Vilanch
“If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.” IfsDifficultAttitudeHighestPositive AttitudeServingDifficult TimesEvaluationUnclear Author:Deborah Day
“I would like to say that racial attitude and prejudice are probably here...It is very difficult to act this out - discrimination - discrimination is an act. After you have the prejudices, the disciminations come out, if there is an institution for it but the Cubans have attempted to create institutions free of discrimination.” IfsDifficultAttitudePrejudiceInstitutionsDiscriminationCuban Author:Huey Newton
“The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation, trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.” ShouldHas BeensStatesDifficultUnitedAttitudeUnited StatesCenturyRevolutionConsequenceBuiltOvercomingGravesConsiderationNationalismCooperationAbandoned20th CenturyMexicanProtectionismMexican Revolution Author:Alan Bersin
“It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsIdeasUseGovernmentDifficultTermWealthAttitudeGroupsSubjectsParticularMassAngryPrivilegeIdeologyIf I CouldElitesRamificationsOverused Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Change is difficult and it takes time. It is hard for people to change their own behavior, much less that of others. Change programs normally address attitudes, ideas, and rewards. But the behaviors of people in organizations are also strongly shaped by habits, routines, and social norms. Real change requires new power relationships, new work routines and new habits, not just intent.” PeopleRealDifficultAttitudeHabitBehaviorProgramTake TimeNormIt Takes Time Author:Richard P. Rumelt