“You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.” PeopleShowsFeelingsLyingGirlGrowsAttitudeGrowing UpNiceToughAlternativesShyLiedRealisedUnlovedBoyishNice Feeling Author:Maj Sjowall
“The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, soldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!” PeopleWayNeedsMeanTwoRunningAmericaAttitudeSunNiceSecuritySoldierDareBritishTeaEmpiresPushingNot AfraidUsersBeing NiceHarshConsumingStairsNoonYellingGunpowderUnfriendly Author:Florence King
“I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.” WellsSometimesSeemsArtistAttitudeAudienceNiceBenefitsTheaterFilledClubsPerformersSoloSupportiveFestivalsGigsTheatricalVenues Author:Maria Bamford
“My twenties were carefree in the worst ways. There's a nice balance now of work ethic and healthy lifestyle and carefree attitude, which is pretty nice. You get to a point where you don't care so much what people think of you and you care more about yourself.” PeopleThinkingWayCareAttitudeNiceWorstBalanceHealthyEthicsTwentiesDon't CareLifestyleAbout YourselfWork EthicHealthy LifestyleThink Of YouCarefree Author:Norman Reedus
“How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.” PeopleSoulHateSimpleAttitudeNiceBloodEternalOrdinaryI HateListsMy SoulOrdinary PeopleLoatheOrdinariness Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing.” LooksTwoImportantAttitudeSawsNiceBandFormerLogicalActivistPunkExtensionsHostileSan FranciscoMellowVancouverBerkeley Author:Jello Biafra
“The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is a problem. I have always taken the attitude that no account is a 'problem account' but that all accounts have important problems attached to them - that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it. It sure gives you a nice, warm glow when you do.” ThinkingGivingImportantFeelingsProblemHappensFightingEnergyAttitudeTakenNiceDangerousWasteAccountsWarmNervousPositive AttitudeMore TimePermitClientsDangerous Things Author:Leo Burnett
“Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.” PeopleFirstsWaitingAttitudeNiceFrontsColdHeatFuelBeing NiceStoves Author:Earl Nightingale