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The little difference is <i>attitude</i>. The big difference is whether it is <i>positive</i> or <i>negative</i>. ~ <i><a href="/wiki/Success_Through_a_Positive_Mental_Attitude" title="Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude">Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude" class="extiw" title="w:Attitude">Attitude</a></b> is word indicating an evaluation of favor or disfavor toward persons, places, events, or one's general environments, and things within them or beyond them. It can also denote something's general correlation to some frame of reference. </p> <dl><dd><b>Alphabetized by author or source:</b></dd></dl> <dl><dd><small> <a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a></small></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">Desire</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Key" title="Key">key</a> to motivation. It is the key to develop a <a href="/wiki/Healthy" class="mw-redirect" title="Healthy">healthy</a> <a href="/wiki/Personality" title="Personality">personality</a> and a positive attitude towards oneself and others. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Abraham" class="extiw" title="w:Amit Abraham">Amit Abraham</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=BvDOT7uINAAC&pg=PA9"><i>Personality Development Through Positive Thinking</i> (2004)</a>, p. 9</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>An attitude is almost like a muscle. You can chose to have a good one. Find ways to exercise it, and make it grow</b>. <ul><li>Jerry S. Beall, in <i>There Will Always be a Tree</i> (2010), p. 54</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>You can’t always control circumstances or people, but you chose your attitude</b> <br />Use one of those or make you own glad game for you and your family<br />As much as possible, remove yourself from people who constantly have a bad attitude<br /><b>Let other people catch a healthy attitude from you.</b> <ul><li>Jerry S. Beall, in <i>There Will Always be a Tree</i> (2010), p. 54</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Father, I want to have a good attitude. Help me to read your bible, and I pray that every Word will help me grow a good attitude. Help me to find good exercises to grow the attitude muscle, and to be carrier, helping influence others to a good attitude, in Jesus name. Amen. <ul><li>Jerry S. Beall, in <i>There Will Always be a Tree</i> (2010), p. 55</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Summer_Bubbles.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Summer_Bubbles.jpg/220px-Summer_Bubbles.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Summer_Bubbles.jpg/330px-Summer_Bubbles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Summer_Bubbles.jpg/440px-Summer_Bubbles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1356" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> is that it is our attitude towards <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a> that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is <a href="/wiki/Wrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrong">wrong</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>You must always be positive! And always smile! A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but being positive will affect many people to make it worth the effort.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Carver" class="extiw" title="w:Daniel Carver">Daniel Carver</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ozMAaEGeg30C&pg=PA10"><i>What's Wrong with Management</i> (2005), p. 10</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> is that it is our attitude towards <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a> that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is <a href="/wiki/Wrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrong">wrong</a>.</b> 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 <a href="/wiki/Respect" title="Respect">respect</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a>, in "A Defence of Baby-Worship" in <i>The Defendant</i> (1901)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=vtLkiTRILQoC&pg=PA56"><i>Attitude : The Power of Positivity</i> (2011), p. 56</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you. <ul><li>Lee J. Colan, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=fpZ1nEnMiA0C&pg=PA11"><i>Orchestrating Attitude</i> (2005), p. 11</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Have you ever thought about what makes you say things like; “that guy has a great attitude” or boy, her attitude is great or crummy. When most of us hear the word “attitude” we think of a fuzzy concept that somehow makes us happy, sad, content or frustrated. <ul><li>Lee J. Colan, in <i>Orchestrating Attitude</i> (2005), p. 12</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Our attitude is our personal boomerang to the world — Whatever we throw out will come back.</b> <ul><li>Lee J. Colan, in <i>Orchestrating Attitude</i> (2005), p. 13</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> was saying that you can't have a larger <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> with restricted attitudes.</b> <ul><li>William E. Cripe, Sr., in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=VgqHjHxFm2kC&pg=PA167"><i>The Proper Pursuit of Prosperity : Balancing the Promises of Heaven with the Experiences of Earth</i> (2011), p. 167</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A positive attitude from you tends to produce a positive attitude toward you. With negative attitude from you, a negative attitude towards you is often what occurs. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Day" class="extiw" title="w:Deborah Day">Deborah Day</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=lt2idHiFoL8C&pg=PA25"><i>Be Happy Now! : Become the Active Director of Your Life</i> (2010), p. 25</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Having a more productive attitude doesn’t mean you won’t still encounter obstacles. However the way you approach these obstacles will be more pro-active and self-directed. The better your attitude the better you will communicate.</b> <ul><li>Deborah Day in <i>Be Happy Now! : Become the Active Director of Your Life</i> (2010), p. 25</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Affliction and Poverty were the circumstances, but <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a> was their attitude, and liberality was what they chose to demonstrate.<b></b> <ul><li>Stephen K. De Silva in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=L9oWgHA6f4UC&pg=PA65"><i>Money and the Prosperous Soul : Tipping the Scales of Favor and Blessing</i> (2010), p. 65</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_and_Education" class="extiw" title="w:Democracy and Education">Democracy and Education</a></i> (1916) , Section 10: Interest and Discipline</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Some attitudes may be named... which are central in effective intellectual ways of dealing with subject matter. Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness (or whole-heartedness), and responsibility. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_and_Education" class="extiw" title="w:Democracy and Education">Democracy and Education</a></i> (1916), [[s:Section_13#The_Traits_of_Individual_Method|Section 13: The Nature of Method : The Traits of Individual Method]</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Taking an attitude is by no means identical with being conscious of one's attitude.</b> The former is spontaneous, naive, and simple. It is a sign of whole-souled relationship between a person and what he is dealing with. The latter is not of necessity abnormal. It is sometimes the easiest way of correcting a false method of approach, and of improving the effectiveness of the means one is employing, — as golf players, piano players, public speakers, etc., have occasionally to give especial attention to their position and movements. But this need is occasional and temporary. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_and_Education" class="extiw" title="w:Democracy and Education">Democracy and Education</a></i> (1916), Section 13: The Nature of Method : The Traits of Individual Method</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The worst thing about stubbornness of mind, about <a href="/wiki/Prejudices" class="mw-redirect" title="Prejudices">prejudices</a>, is that they arrest development; they shut off the mind from new stimuli. Open-mindedness means retention of the childlike attitude; closed-mindedness means premature intellectual old age. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_and_Education" class="extiw" title="w:Democracy and Education">Democracy and Education</a></i> (1916), Section 13: The Nature of Method : Open-mindedness</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In one sense, <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> is that which we take for granted. It is that which is settled, disposed of, established, under control. What we fully know, we do not need to think about. In common phrase, it is certain, assured. And this does not mean a mere feeling of certainty. It denotes not a sentiment, but a practical attitude, a readiness to act without reserve or quibble. Of course we may be mistaken. <b>What is taken for knowledge — for fact and truth — at a given time may not be such. But everything which is assumed without question, which is taken for granted in our intercourse with one another and nature is what, at the given time, is called knowledge.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_and_Education" class="extiw" title="w:Democracy and Education">Democracy and Education</a></i> (1916), Section 22: The Individual and the World : Mind as the Agent of Reorganization</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the late eighteenth and the greater part of the nineteenth centuries appeared the first marked cultural shift in the attitude taken toward <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a>. Under the names of indefinite perfectibility, progress, and evolution, the movement of things in the universe itself and of the universe as a whole began to take on a beneficent instead of hateful aspect. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a>, in <i>Time and Individuality</i> (1940)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Circle-A_red.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Circle-A_red.svg/220px-Circle-A_red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Circle-A_red.svg/330px-Circle-A_red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Circle-A_red.svg/440px-Circle-A_red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="675" data-file-height="675" /></a><figcaption>It seems to me that an <a href="/wiki/Anarchist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anarchist">anarchist</a> attitude is the only one that is sufficiently <a href="/wiki/Radical" class="mw-redirect" title="Radical">radical</a> in the face of a general statist <a href="/wiki/System" title="System">system</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Ellul" title="Jacques Ellul">Jacques Ellul</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_(Oxford_1715)_frontispiece.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_%28Oxford_1715%29_frontispiece.jpg/220px-Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_%28Oxford_1715%29_frontispiece.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="389" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_%28Oxford_1715%29_frontispiece.jpg/330px-Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_%28Oxford_1715%29_frontispiece.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_%28Oxford_1715%29_frontispiece.jpg/440px-Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_%28Oxford_1715%29_frontispiece.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1996" data-file-height="3530" /></a><figcaption>It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">Nothing</a> is by its own <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> calamitous — even <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a> is terrible only if we <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> it. ~ <a href="/wiki/Epictetus" title="Epictetus">Epictetus</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>I can <a href="/wiki/Understand" class="mw-redirect" title="Understand">understand</a> your aversion to the use of the term "<a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>" to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in <a href="/wiki/Spinoza" class="mw-redirect" title="Spinoza">Spinoza</a></b> … I have not found a better expression than "religious" for the <a href="/wiki/Trust" title="Trust">trust</a> in the rational <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> of <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, in a letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Solovine" class="extiw" title="w:Maurice Solovine">Maurice Solovine</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.einsteinandreligion.com/spinoza.html">Einstein : Science and Religion by Arnold V. Lesikar</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, in a speech made in honor of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mann" title="Thomas Mann">Thomas Mann</a> in January 1939, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum. Quoted in <i>Einstein Lived Here</i> (1994) by Abraham Pais, p. 214</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I do not believe that anarchist <a href="/wiki/Doctrine" title="Doctrine">doctrine</a> is the solution to the problem of <a href="/wiki/Organization" title="Organization">organization</a> in <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> and <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a>.</b> I do not think that if <a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchism</a> were to succeed we should have a better or more livable <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>. Hence I am not <a href="/wiki/Fighting" title="Fighting">fighting</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Triumph" class="mw-redirect" title="Triumph">triumph</a> of this doctrine. <br /> <b>On the other hand, it seems to me that an anarchist attitude is the only one that is sufficiently <a href="/wiki/Radical" class="mw-redirect" title="Radical">radical</a> in the face of a general statist <a href="/wiki/System" title="System">system</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Ellul" title="Jacques Ellul">Jacques Ellul</a>, in <i>The Ethics of Freedom</i> (1973 - 1974), as translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley (1976)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>What we have in <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> is the attitude that conscientous objectors take on a specific point, and not without good <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a>.</b> In the present set-up the anarchist attitude of a total refusal of validity or legitimacy to any authority of any kind seems to me to be the only valid and viable one. The point is not to enforce a particular view of society but to establish a counterbalance, a protest, a sign of cleavage. In face of an absolute power only a total confrontation has any <a href="/wiki/Meaning" title="Meaning">meaning</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Ellul" title="Jacques Ellul">Jacques Ellul</a>, in <i>The Ethics of Freedom</i> (1973 - 1974), as translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley (1976)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Epictetus" title="Epictetus">Epictetus</a> quoted in <i>Victims and Values : A History and a Theory of Suffering</i> (1990) by Joseph Anthony Amato and David Monge, p. 36</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marianne_Faithfull,_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg/220px-Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg/330px-Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg/440px-Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1667" data-file-height="1711" /></a><figcaption>There are so many <a href="/wiki/Myths" class="mw-redirect" title="Myths">myths</a> out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know. And what is that attitude? ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Faithfull" class="extiw" title="w:Marianne Faithfull">Marianne Faithfull</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach.</b> But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know. And what is that attitude? She picks up a forkful of mashed potatoes and smiles beatifically:<b> "That attitude is: fuck off." </b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Faithfull" class="extiw" title="w:Marianne Faithfull">Marianne Faithfull</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/feb/16/rock-of-ages-60s-marianne-faithfull">"Marianne Faithfull: rocking 60s style"</a> in <i>The Guardian</i> (16 February 2013)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dalai_Lama_1430_Luca_Galuzzi_2007crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Dalai_Lama_1430_Luca_Galuzzi_2007crop.jpg/220px-Dalai_Lama_1430_Luca_Galuzzi_2007crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="363" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Dalai_Lama_1430_Luca_Galuzzi_2007crop.jpg/330px-Dalai_Lama_1430_Luca_Galuzzi_2007crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Dalai_Lama_1430_Luca_Galuzzi_2007crop.jpg/440px-Dalai_Lama_1430_Luca_Galuzzi_2007crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="748" data-file-height="1234" /></a><figcaption>My attitude is to give everyone some of my <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>. If I can contribute in any way to their <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a>, that makes me happy. ~ <a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible.</b> From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama</a>, in <i>Kindness, Clarity, and Insight</i> (1984)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.</b> If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl6NWpayLdQC&pg=PA92"><i>Why We Behave</i> (2009) by Maurice Cayem, p. 92</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The Great Vehicle path requires the vast motivation of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva" class="extiw" title="w:Bodhisattva">Bodhisattva</a>, who, not seeking just his or her welfare, takes on the burden of bringing about the welfare of all sentient beings.</b> When a person generate this attitude, they enter within the Great Vehicle, and as long as it has not been generated, one cannot be counted among those of the Great Vehicle. This attitude really has great power; it, of course, is helpful for people practicing religion, but it also is helpful for those who are just concerned with the affairs of this lifetime. <b>The root of happiness is altruism — the wish to be of service to others.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama</a>, in <i>The Dalai Lama at Harvard: Lectures on the Buddhist Path to Peace</i> (1988) by Jeffrey Hopkins</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others.</b> When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect. Practice brings the clear realisation of the oneness of all human beings and the importance of others benefiting by your actions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama</a>, answering the question "Your Holiness, there are many people in the West who want to combine their spiritual practice with social and political responsibility. Do you feel that these two aspects are connected?" in an interview with Catherine Ingram, Dharamsala, India (2 November 1988).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude towards others does not change even if they behave negatively. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the needs of the other... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama</a>, in <i>The Compassionate Life</i> (2001), Ch. 2 "How to Develop Compassion" p. 21</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>My attitude is to give everyone some of my <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>. If I can contribute in any way to their <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a>, that makes me happy.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/1514537/Westerners-are-too-self-absorbed.html">"Westerners are too self-absorbed" by Alice Thomson, in <i>The Daily Telegraph</i> (1 March 2006)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Humiliating to human <a href="/wiki/Pride" title="Pride">pride</a> as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a> are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen. <b>These accidents occur in the combination of knowledge and attitudes, skills and habits, acquired by individual men and also when qualified men are confronted with the particular circumstances which they are equipped to deal with. Our necessary ignorance of so much means that we have to deal largely with probabilities and chances.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek" title="Friedrich Hayek">Friedrich Hayek</a>, in <i>The Constitution of Liberty</i> (1960)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">Conservatism</a> proper is a legitimate, probably necessary, and certainly widespread attitude of opposition to drastic change. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek" title="Friedrich Hayek">Friedrich Hayek</a>, in <i>The Constitution of Liberty</i> (1960), Why I Am Not a Conservative</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heave, spreading itself like oil over the trouble sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Irving" title="Washington Irving">Washington Irving</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8UgKKLBF3TcC&pg=PA15">Every Day Quotes</a>, p. 15</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>I have often thought that the best way to define a man's <a href="/wiki/Character" title="Character">character</a> would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and <a href="/wiki/Alive" class="mw-redirect" title="Alive">alive</a>.</b> At such moments there is a <a href="/wiki/Voice" title="Voice">voice</a> inside which speaks and says: "This is the <a href="/wiki/Real" class="mw-redirect" title="Real">real</a> me!" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, in a letter to his wife, Alice Gibbons James (1878), published in <i>The Letters of William James</i> (1920)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The necessity of <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> as an ingredient in our mental attitude is strongly insisted on by the <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">scientific</a> <a href="/wiki/Philosophers" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophers">philosophers</a> of the present day; but by a singularly arbitrary caprice they say that it is only legitimate when used in the interests of one particular proposition, — the proposition, namely, that the course of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> is uniform. <b>That nature will follow to-morrow the same laws that she follows to-day is, they all admit, a <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> which no man can <i>know</i>; but in the interests of cognition as well as of action we must postulate or assume it.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, in <i>The Sentiment of Rationality</i> (1882)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I can, of course, put myself into the sectarian scientist's attitude, and imagine vividly that the world of sensations and scientific laws and objects may be all. But whenever I do this, I hear that inward monitor of which <a href="/wiki/W._K._Clifford" class="mw-redirect" title="W. K. Clifford">W. K. Clifford</a> once wrote, whispering the word "bosh!"</b> Humbug is humbug, even though it bear the scientific name, and the total expression of human experience, as I view it objectively, invincibly urges me beyond the narrow "scientific" bounds. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, in <i>The Varieties of Religious Experience</i> (1902), Lecture XX "Conclusions"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>An attitude of orientation, is what the <a href="/wiki/Pragmatism" title="Pragmatism">pragmatic method</a> means.</b> The attitude of looking away from first things, principles, "categories", supposed necessities; and of looking towards last things, fruits, <a href="/wiki/Consequences" class="mw-redirect" title="Consequences">consequences</a>, <a href="/wiki/Facts" class="mw-redirect" title="Facts">facts</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pragmatism:_A_New_Name_for_Some_Old_Ways_of_Thinking" class="extiw" title="s:Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking">Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking</a></i> (1907)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goall nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=-T3QhPjIxhIC&pg=PA380">Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing</a>, p. 68</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Klein" class="extiw" title="w:Allen Klein">Allen Klein</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=dJzawf_yPg4C"><i>The Home Office Solution</i> (1998) by Alice Bredin</a>, p. 33</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.</b> <ul><li>Allen Klein, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=epF3AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125"><i>Soul Rays : Discover the Vibratory Frequency of Your Soul</i> (2013)</a> by Candia L. Sanders, p. 125</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Leonardo_da_Vinci,_Salvator_Mundi,_c.1500,_oil_on_walnut,_45.4_%C3%97_65.6_cmFXD.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_Salvator_Mundi%2C_c.1500%2C_oil_on_walnut%2C_45.4_%C3%97_65.6_cmFXD.jpg/220px-Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_Salvator_Mundi%2C_c.1500%2C_oil_on_walnut%2C_45.4_%C3%97_65.6_cmFXD.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="324" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_Salvator_Mundi%2C_c.1500%2C_oil_on_walnut%2C_45.4_%C3%97_65.6_cmFXD.jpg/330px-Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_Salvator_Mundi%2C_c.1500%2C_oil_on_walnut%2C_45.4_%C3%97_65.6_cmFXD.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_Salvator_Mundi%2C_c.1500%2C_oil_on_walnut%2C_45.4_%C3%97_65.6_cmFXD.jpg/440px-Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_Salvator_Mundi%2C_c.1500%2C_oil_on_walnut%2C_45.4_%C3%97_65.6_cmFXD.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3300" data-file-height="4856" /></a><figcaption>A picture or representation of human figures, ought to be done in such a way as that the spectator may easily recognise, by means of their attitudes, the <a href="/wiki/Purpose" title="Purpose">purpose</a> in their <a href="/wiki/Minds" class="mw-redirect" title="Minds">minds</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpg/220px-Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpg/330px-Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpg/440px-Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpg 2x" data-file-width="10446" data-file-height="13522" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">Good</a> <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a> is <a href="/wiki/Born" class="mw-redirect" title="Born">born</a> of a good <a href="/wiki/Disposition" title="Disposition">disposition</a>; and since the <a href="/wiki/Cause" class="mw-redirect" title="Cause">cause</a> is more to be <a href="/wiki/Praised" class="mw-redirect" title="Praised">praised</a> than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition. ~ <a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>A picture or representation of human figures, ought to be done in such a way as that the spectator may easily recognise, by means of their attitudes, the <a href="/wiki/Purpose" title="Purpose">purpose</a> in their <a href="/wiki/Minds" class="mw-redirect" title="Minds">minds</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Leonardo_Da_Vinci" class="extiw" title="s:The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci">The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci</a></i> (Richter, 1888), IX The Practice of Painting</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">Good</a> <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a> is <a href="/wiki/Born" class="mw-redirect" title="Born">born</a> of a good <a href="/wiki/Disposition" title="Disposition">disposition</a>; and since the <a href="/wiki/Cause" class="mw-redirect" title="Cause">cause</a> is more to be <a href="/wiki/Praised" class="mw-redirect" title="Praised">praised</a> than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Leonardo_Da_Vinci" class="extiw" title="s:The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci">The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci</a></i> (Richter, 1888), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man's attitude goes some ways, the way his life will be. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Lynch" title="David Lynch">David Lynch</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mulholland_Drive_(film)" title="Mulholland Drive (film)">Mulholland Drive</a></i> (2001), interpreted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Montgomery_(producer)" class="extiw" title="w:Monty Montgomery (producer)">Monty Montgomery</a> as The Cowboy.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Attitude...<br />It is the “advance man” of our true selves.<br />Its roots are inward but its fruit is outward.<br />It is our best friend or our worst enemy.<br />It is more honest and more consistent than our words.<br />It is an outward look based on past experiences.<br />It is a thing which draws people to us or repels them.<br />It is never content until it is expressed.<br />It is the librarian of our past.<br />It is the speaker of the present.<br />It is the prophet of our future. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Maxwell" class="extiw" title="w:John C. Maxwell">John Maxwell</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Dd3FrYEQb4kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Attitude&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2CjdUuSvJMutlQXr1YCoAg&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=Attitude&f=false">Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know</a>, p. 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Be a little dog with a big dog attitude. Your attitude is the little thing that makes a big difference.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_McColl" class="extiw" title="w:Peggy McColl">Peggy McColl</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=8We8Q02BfCsC&pg=PA37"><i>Be A Dog with a Bone : Always Go for Your Dreams</i> (2009), p. 3</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Swindoll" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Swindoll">Charles Swindoll</a>—author, educator, and <a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a> pastor—said: “<b>Attitude, to me, is more important than … the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a>, ...than <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">money</a>, than circumstances, than <a href="/wiki/Failures" class="mw-redirect" title="Failures">failures</a>, than <a href="/wiki/Successes" class="mw-redirect" title="Successes">successes</a>, than what other people think or say or do.</b> It is more important than <a href="/wiki/Appearance" title="Appearance">appearance</a>, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a <a href="/wiki/Home" title="Home">home</a>. The remarkable thing is we have a <a href="/wiki/Choice" title="Choice">choice</a> every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_S._Monson" title="Thomas S. Monson">Thomas S. Monson</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lds.org/liahona/2012/01/living-the-abundant-life?lang=eng"><i>Living the Abundant Life</i> (2004)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A in my ABCs refers to attitude. <a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, a pioneering American <a href="/wiki/Psychologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychologist">psychologist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher">philosopher</a>, wrote, “<b>The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their <a href="/wiki/Minds" class="mw-redirect" title="Minds">minds</a>, can <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a> the outer aspects of their <a href="/wiki/Lives" class="mw-redirect" title="Lives">lives</a></b>.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_S._Monson" title="Thomas S. Monson">Thomas S. Monson</a>, in <i>Living the Abundant Life</i> (2004)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>So much in <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.</b> To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a> and <a href="/wiki/Contentment" title="Contentment">contentment</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_S._Monson" title="Thomas S. Monson">Thomas S. Monson</a>, in <i>Living the Abundant Life</i> (2004)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Your attitude comes from inside.</b> When you are able to relax and let your true personality shine through, you come across as confident and interesting. You appear to like, respect, and believe in yourself. When that happens, people like being around you. They like working with you, and they trust your competence level. They know that you will make certain that things are done right. <br /> Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person. <br /> A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_course" class="extiw" title="w:Golf course">golf course</a> and/or workplace and the people there are important. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorii_Myers" class="extiw" title="w:Lorii Myers">Lorii Myers</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QAXyI5wk1skC&pg=PT55"><i>Off the Tee : Targeting Success : Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace</i> (2011), p. 55</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Consistent Execution+Proven Strategy (and Right Prospects)+Attitude/Characteristics (Confident, Best Thinking, Enthusiastic, Creative, Resilient, Persistent, Driven, Intuitive, Honorable, Seeks to Serve/Learn, Self-aware, Coachable, Etc,)+Communications Style = <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal" class="extiw" title="w:Goal">Success</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Nick" class="extiw" title="w:Michael J. Nick"> Michael J. Nick</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PKadKLVvVEoC&pg=PA167"><i>The Key to the C-Suite : What You Need to Know to Sell Successfully to Top Executives</i> (2011). p. 167</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joel_Osteen_Preaching_At_Lakewood_Church.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Joel_Osteen_Preaching_At_Lakewood_Church.jpg/175px-Joel_Osteen_Preaching_At_Lakewood_Church.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Joel_Osteen_Preaching_At_Lakewood_Church.jpg/263px-Joel_Osteen_Preaching_At_Lakewood_Church.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Joel_Osteen_Preaching_At_Lakewood_Church.jpg/350px-Joel_Osteen_Preaching_At_Lakewood_Church.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1105" /></a><figcaption>Choosing to be positive and having a <a href="/wiki/Grateful" class="mw-redirect" title="Grateful">grateful</a> attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. ~ <a href="/w/index.php?title=Joel_Osteen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joel Osteen (page does not exist)">Joel Osteen</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Osteen" class="extiw" title="w:Joel Osteen">Joel Osteen</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=G_4EOauEFyYC&pg=PT174"><i>Eyes Closed, Too Hear</i> (2010) by R.J. Woodward</a>, p. 17</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Attitude is everything.</b> Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader. Every one enjoys being around a person who is helpful and searches for solutions. A positive attitude also looks for the good in everything instead of the bad. And why shouldn’t you have a positive attitude? <ul><li>Philippinas quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3Pr8r8_F5hQC&pg=PA17"><i>A Leader After God's Own Heart : 15 Ways to Lead with Strength</i> (2012)</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_George" class="extiw" title="w:Jim George"> Jim George</a>, p. 17</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Q">Q</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Q"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Attitude_indicator_climbing.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Attitude_indicator_climbing.svg/220px-Attitude_indicator_climbing.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Attitude_indicator_climbing.svg/330px-Attitude_indicator_climbing.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Attitude_indicator_climbing.svg/440px-Attitude_indicator_climbing.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="420" data-file-height="420" /></a><figcaption>I contend to be a <a href="/wiki/Fighter" class="mw-redirect" title="Fighter">fighter</a> for <a href="/wiki/Pureness" class="mw-redirect" title="Pureness">pureness</a> and <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>. I hesitate, because I am <a href="/wiki/Afraid" class="mw-redirect" title="Afraid">afraid</a> of you and your attitude towards truth. To say the truth about you is <a href="/wiki/Dangerous" class="mw-redirect" title="Dangerous">dangerous</a> to <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>In part by their <a href="/wiki/Apathy" title="Apathy">apathy</a>, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anybody else.</b> To stress this guilt on the part of masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously. On the other hand, to commiserate masses of people as victims, means to treat them as small, helpless children. <b>The former is the attitude held by genuine <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>-fighters; the latter the attitude held by the <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a>-thirsty <a href="/wiki/Politicians" title="Politicians">politicians</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, in <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i> (1933), Ch. 10 : Work Democracy, Section 3 : Work Democracy versus Politics. The Natural Social Forces for the Mastery of the Emotional Plague</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I contend to be a <a href="/wiki/Fighter" class="mw-redirect" title="Fighter">fighter</a> for <a href="/wiki/Pureness" class="mw-redirect" title="Pureness">pureness</a> and <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>. I hesitate, because I am <a href="/wiki/Afraid" class="mw-redirect" title="Afraid">afraid</a> of you and your attitude towards truth. To say the truth about you is <a href="/wiki/Dangerous" class="mw-redirect" title="Dangerous">dangerous</a> to <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, in <i>Listen, Little Man!</i> (1948)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">Peace</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">great</a> <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a>; and doubly harmful, therefore, is the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">attitude</a> of those who advocate it in terms that would make it synonymous with <a href="/wiki/Selfish" class="mw-redirect" title="Selfish">selfish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cowardly" class="mw-redirect" title="Cowardly">cowardly</a> shrinking from warring against the existence of <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, in "Expansion and Peace" published in the "Independent" (21 October 1899), later in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Strenuous_Life:_Essays_and_Addresses" title="The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses">The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses</a></i> (1900)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>These two attitudes, the attitude of <a href="/wiki/Deification" title="Deification">deifying</a> mere <a href="/wiki/Efficiency" title="Efficiency">efficiency</a>, mere <a href="/wiki/Success" title="Success">success</a>, without regard to the <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> qualities lying behind it, and the attitude of disregarding efficiency, disregarding practical results, are the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla_and_Charybdis" class="extiw" title="w:Scylla and Charybdis">Scylla and Charybdis</a> between which every earnest reformer, every politician who desires to make the name of his profession a term of <a href="/wiki/Honor" title="Honor">honor</a> instead of <a href="/wiki/Shame" title="Shame">shame</a>, must steer. He must avoid both under penalty of wreckage, and it avails him nothing to have avoided one, if he founders on the other. People are apt to speak as if in political life, public life, it ought to be a mere case of striving upward — striving toward a high peak. The simile is inexact. <b>Every man who is striving to do good public work is traveling along a ridge crest, with the gulf of failure on each side — the gulf of inefficiency on the one side, the gulf of unrighteousness on the other.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, in "Latitude and Longitude among Reformers" in the "Century" (June 1900), later in <i>The Strenuous Life : Essays and Addresses</i> (1900)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The vast individual and corporate fortunes, the vast combinations of capital, which have marked the development of our industrial system create new conditions, and necessitate a change from the old attitude of the state and the nation toward property.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jonesmansion.com/history/speechon.htm">"National Duties", an address at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul (2 September 1901)</a>, later in <i>The Strenuous Life : Essays and Addresses</i> (1902 edition)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><ul><li>Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.</li> <li>Theodore Roosevelt, in “Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing”, in p. 70</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In studying a <a href="/wiki/Philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher">philosopher</a>, the right attitude is nether reverence nor contempt, but first a kind of hypothetical <a href="/wiki/Sympathy" title="Sympathy">sympathy</a>, until it is possible to know what it <a href="/wiki/Feels" class="mw-redirect" title="Feels">feels</a> like to believe in his theories, and only then a revival of the critical attitude, which should resemble, as far as possible, the state of mind of a person abandoning opinions which he has hitherto held. <b>Contempt interferes with the first part of this process, and reverence with the second.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/A_History_of_Western_Philosophy" title="A History of Western Philosophy">A History of Western Philosophy</a></i> (1945), Book One, Ancient Philosophy, Part I, Chapter IV, Heraclitus, p. 39</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The attitude of <a href="/wiki/Capitalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitalists">capitalists</a> to <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>, it is true, has fluctuated... In modern times, big business, everywhere, has come into such intimate relations with the national State that the situation is greatly changed. But even now, both in England and in America, big business on the whole dislikes war. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/A_History_of_Western_Philosophy" title="A History of Western Philosophy">A History of Western Philosophy</a></i> (1945), Book Three, Part I, Chapter XV, Locke's Influence, p. 646</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The attitude of man toward the non-human environment has differed profoundly at different times. The Greeks, with their dread of hubris and their belief in a <a href="/wiki/Necessity" title="Necessity">Necessity</a> or <a href="/wiki/Fate" title="Fate">Fate</a> superior even to Zeus, carefully avoided what would have seemed to them insolence towards the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>.</b> The Middle Ages carried submission much further: humility towards God was a Christian's first duty. Initiative was cramped by this attitude, and great originality was scarcely possible. The <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> restored human pride, but carried it to the point where it led to anarchy and disaster. Its works were largely undone by the Reformation and the Counter-reformation. But modern technique, while not altogether favorable to the lordly individual of the Renaissance, has revived the sense of the collective power of human communities. <b>Man, formerly too humble, begins to think of himself as almost a <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/A_History_of_Western_Philosophy" title="A History of Western Philosophy">A History of Western Philosophy</a></i> (1945), Book Three, Part II, Chapter XXX, John Dewey, p. 827</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Caduceus.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Caduceus.png" decoding="async" width="99" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="99" data-file-height="120" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Healthy" class="mw-redirect" title="Healthy">healthy</a> attitude is contagious; but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. ~ <a href="/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" title="Tom Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>There is very little difference in <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>, but that little difference makes a big difference! The little difference is <i>attitude</i>. The big difference is whether it is <i>positive</i> or <i>negative</i>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W._Clement_Stone" title="W. Clement Stone">W. Clement Stone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Hill" title="Napoleon Hill">Napoleon Hill</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Success_Through_a_Positive_Mental_Attitude" title="Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude">Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude</a></i>, Ch. 18 : Can You Attract Happiness?</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A healthy attitude is contagious; but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" title="Tom Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a>, quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zLm5KE-OFmkC&pg=PA54"><i>There Will Always be a Tree</i> (2010), p. 54</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Tracy" title="Brian Tracy">Brian Tracy</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=jV1KwVRzsg0C&pg=PA126"><i>Achieving Your Promises : How To Reverse Your Circumstances And Realize Your Dreams</i> (2008)</a> by Timothy Ryan Patton, p. 126</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Dr. Reich</a> vastly offended many <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> by his <a href="/wiki/Sociological" class="mw-redirect" title="Sociological">sociological</a> <a href="/wiki/Theory" title="Theory">theory</a>, which holds that <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascism</a> is just an exaggerated form of the basic structure of <a href="/wiki/Sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex">sex</a>-negative <a href="/wiki/Societies" class="mw-redirect" title="Societies">societies</a> and has existed under other <a href="/wiki/Names" title="Names">names</a> in every <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a> based on sexual repression. <b>In this theory, the <a href="/wiki/Character" title="Character">character</a> and muscular armor of the average citizen — a submissive and <a href="/wiki/Frightened" class="mw-redirect" title="Frightened">frightened</a> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">attitude</a> anchored in body reflexes — causes the average person to want a <a href="/wiki/Strong" class="mw-redirect" title="Strong">strong</a> <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">authority</a> figure above them. </b><a href="/wiki/Tyranny" title="Tyranny">Tyranny</a>, in this model, is not created by tyrants alone but by neurotic masses who <i>want</i> tyrants. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson" title="Robert Anton Wilson">Robert Anton Wilson</a>, in <i>Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups</i> (1998), p. 361</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="X">X</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: X"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>America needs to understand <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X">Malcolm X</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8pbYAAAAMAAJ"><i>New World Metaphysics : Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American Experience</i> (1981) by Giles B. Gunn</a>, p. 438</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Y"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yutang" class="extiw" title="w:Lin Yutang">Lin Yutang</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=0shmmQnfJIAC">The Speaker's Quote Book: Over 5,000 Illustrations and Quotations for All ...</a>, p. 109</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rob_Zombie" title="Rob Zombie">Rob Zombie</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/zombies-tips-for-zeroes/">"Zombie’s tips for zeroes" in <i>Class Rock Magazine</i> (20 July 2012)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attitude&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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