Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
Life is an Attitude. It's what you Choose to Believe, ALWAYS.
We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.
We recruit for attitude and train for skill.
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union.
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out...You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.
It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.
If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!
Attitude is the most important word in any language. Your attitude controls every aspect of your life. Attitude should definitely be taught in all schools and every business course... Remember you don't have to be sick to get better. Your attitude can always be improved.
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.
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