“One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.” PeopleKindLittlesFallEasyAttitudeTroubleSatisfiedTendenciesMaturityOld PeopleTherapeuticReassuring Book:I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home Source: I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home
“Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an island on the Atlantic Ocean famous for its wild horses. I realize that the concept of wild horses probably stirs romantic notions in many of you, but this is because you have never met any wild horses in person. In person, they are like enormous hooved rats. They amble up to your camp site, and their attitude is: We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon.” YearsPersonsLawFallRealizingAttitudeMetsOceanLateHumorousConceptsHorseNotionShoesEnormousIslandsCampsProtectedSiteRatsTentsCampingPoopWild HorsesAtlantic Ocean Author:Dave Barry
“It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.” ThinkingWritingMeanMatterSeemsFallGamesViewsAttitudeAudienceHearingPoint Of ViewDullProseShallowRestlessFoulBegetsWriting By WritersAmerican Writer Author:Robertson Davies
“The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.” DoeFallStrongAttitudeStepsUnited StatesRiskFeetEnglandDispositionAdaptationPerilEnglishmenVigorousSteps ForwardStand FirmInsularity Author:Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.” MeanSoulDesireFallBeliefFearLevelsAttitudeCircumstancesHeightAspirationHarborsA Man Thinketh Book:As a Man Thinketh Source: As a Man Thinketh
“In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.” WorldNeedsIdeasEnoughTodayFacesFallAttitudeFailureSucceedCelebrateCollectivesWorld TodayDown The RoadNeed A ChangeBusiness World Author:Naveen Jain
“The reason we don't get what we want isn't because we don't have the ability or time. We aren't willing to do the things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. There's an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.” WantNeedsFeelsReasonFallAbilityAttitudeWillingImpactFalling In LoveEntitlementGrindDaily Grind Author:Rory Vaden
“I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I fall into that too! I learned that in graduate school. You just talk about your music in a specific way, and that separates people from you. But some composers like that. Schoenberg liked that. He wanted to feel that he was making music for an elite few. That's fine for him, but I want to set myself free from that sort of attitude.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsWantedSchoolFallAttitudeTalkingFineGraduatesComposerElitesGraduate SchoolSchoenberg Author:Missy Mazzoli
“The amalgam of psychological attitudes we form is the synthetic complex. It may fall apart quite quickly as further reflection or further experience bears on it, and we may revert to our former judgments, feelings and tendencies.” MayFeelingsFormFallAttitudeBearsJudgmentReflectionComplexesTendenciesPsychologicalFormerFalling ApartSynthetic Author:Philip Kitcher
“In the era of Khruschev the Soviet Union had publicly declared itself a supporter of the Indian stand on Kashmir. In 1962 a Russian veto had defeated a Security Council resolution on the plebiscite issue. By 1965, and after the fall of the Kruschev regime, Russian attitudes were significantly modified.” FallAttitudeIssuesSecurityUnionsErasIndianResolutionSovietRegimesDefeatedSupporterSoviet UnionCouncilKashmirVetoSecurity Council Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“Time is limited. Time is not forever. How many more moons and sunrises will you see in your life rise and fall? There's not that many! It's a small amount! So, for people to be saying with this attitude "ohh, I'll get on with my life, and my greatness, sometime." No, you can't!” PeopleFallAttitudeForeverGreatnessAmountMoonSunriseRise And FallSmall AmountsLimited Time Author:Matt Drudge
“Often we can change things, and a realistic attitude - including envisioning worse case scenarios - actually helps to accomplish that change. But if you truly cannot do anything about something, then why on earth would you want to make things even worse for you by falling into despair? It seems like adding a self-inflicting injury to the already existing one.” HelpingEarthFallAttitudeDespairAccomplishInjuryRealistic Author:Massimo Pigliucci
“I think often people fall into the breadth trap of wanting to do too long a period of time, and obviously there's this sort of algorithm of how much depth you can put into something times how much of their life you're trying to show. My attitude has always been, I'd rather show a briefer period of time in more detail than a longer period of time in less detail.” PeopleThinkingTryingLongFallAttitudeMy Attitude Author:Steven Soderbergh