For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned - take our post-traumatic growth - and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.
Copy Quote View & ShareEvery child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhat I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.
Copy Quote View & ShareAmericans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo be someplace for ten years or to work anywhere for ten years is a tough deal. But to work in the WWE for that long, knowing how their dressing room is run with this top heavy, condescending 'do this and nothing else' attitude, it gets tiresome.
Copy Quote View & ShareFrom the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.
Copy Quote View & ShareBeing a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.
Copy Quote View & ShareI saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
Copy Quote View & SharePeople have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn't break that perception.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen i was younger I was much more self focussed. I was worried about my self-image. I thought I was too fat. I was very critical of myself, and then I met and got to know and understand my husband. He helped me turn myself around. He had such a positive attitude towards life.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe have to remember that Putin was a member of the KGB. He has already demonstrated that kind of macho, dictatorial attitude. Russia has breached their pledge to uphold the Olympic charter. This is a great opportunity for the IOC to say we cannot, given the situation that exists currently, allow the Olympics to take place in Russia.
Copy Quote View & ShareWith his incredible attitude, with his incredible winning mentality, Cristiano Ronaldo is a unique player.
Copy Quote View & ShareA person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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