Best Personality Quotes for Self-Improvement - page 41

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
 Christopher Lasch
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
 Nina Simone
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder.
 Inge Genefke
Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.
 Frances Mayes
Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.
 Chip Conley
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.
 Jayne Ann Krentz
Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.
 Annie Leonard
[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.
Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.
 Martina Navratilova
We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
 Bruce Feiler
Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.
 Mark Victor Hansen
I think the only remotely interesting drug was acid. I had a slightly peculiar attitude towards it I think. Just about everything about hippydom I hated.
 Jonathan Meades
I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.
 Francesco Clemente
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, \'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!\' This should be one\'s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
 Ramana Maharshi
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
 Mary Engelbreit