“As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective.” WayNeedsPersonsParentPoorAttitudeLeaderHigherGratitudeBehaviorStandardsCommitmentPerformancesHinderHigher StandardsPoor Performance Author:Hal Elrod
“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.” WorldHumansLongSelfActionOpportunityLostTermInterestLossPoorAttitudeConflictConsequenceTradeMiseryInjusticeAidsLong TermCollectivesMutualWealthyMultipleLinkedShort TermSelf InterestDeprivationNational InterestsCollective ActionLost OpportunityMutual Interest Author:Tony Blair
“As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.” WellsIdeasMotivationPoorCommonAttitudeQualityEvidenceCrisisEverydayDuesBlockPersistentFear Of FailureShortageVenuesJadedFear Of SuccessPoor QualityLackadaisical Author:Robert Genn
“By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money.” JobsLastsCulturePoorAttitudePovertyCrimeLowsAddictionConservativeLifestyleIdeologyErasClockTrustedWagesGratificationAlarmsCornerstonesBad AttitudePromiscuousAlarm Clocks Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.” PeopleGovernmentPoorAttitudeArgumentAidsAgencyElitesPoor PeopleDependencyHarvey Author:Paul Harvey
“Can someone tell me, whatever we are doing, have we asked ourselves if our work has helped the poor or come to benefit the nation in any way? We should come out of the 'Why should I care' attitude and dedicate ourselves to the nation's progress.” IfsWayShouldCareNationsPoorPowerfulAttitudeProgressBenefitsShould II Care Author:Narendra Modi
“The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who were critics just didn't understand the works at all. I was sorry about that, but it didn't weigh on my mind a bit.” MindGuyBitsPoorAttitudeCriticsSorryBotherReviewsHostile Author:William Eggleston
“We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes.” PoorAttitudeGradesGood Grades Author:Sterling W Sill
“There's a wonderful cartoon of Reagan in a Western hat and he's saying, "A pregnant woman in every home, a gun in every holster. Make America a man again." That sums up his attitudes: pro-military, anti-equality, pro-rich, anti-poor.” MenHomeAmericaPoorAttitudeRichWonderfulMilitaryGunWesternHatsPregnantCartoonPregnant Women Author:Gloria Steinem
“I think Welfare Reform did more harm than good, but one piece of good it did was it changed the attitudes of Americans. If we look at voter surveys even before the recession, the idea that people are poor because they're lazy was much stronger in the early '90s than it was even before the recession. Now with the recession, everybody knows somebody who is poor through no fault of their own. So voter attitudes are more favorable than they've been since the '60s.” PeopleThinkingPoorAttitudeChangedStrongerWelfareLazyOne Piece Author:David Beckmann
“Life is about committing ourselves on a daily basis to the best in us. Freedom is a state of mind. Freedom is an attitude. Freedom is a spirit. You may be behind bars, but you still have the capacity to be free. I've visited some people behind bars who are freer than Negroes I see running around every day. Being in jail, or poor, or uneducated doesn't determine how free you can be. There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.” PeopleMindRunningSpiritPoorAttitudeCircumstancesDetermineScaredState Of MindUneducated Author:Tavis Smiley
“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.” SoulPoorAttitudePovertyImpossibleGoodsIrreparable Author:Michel de Montaigne
“It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.” MindSufferingFearPoorAttitudeWorryRichIllRich Or Poor Author:Michel de Montaigne