Famous Quotes

"Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone."

Denise Mina on Attitude

More quotes about Attitude

• "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."

  Joel Osteen on Attitude

• "My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

  Michael Jordan on Attitude

• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

  Albert Einstein on Attitude

• "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

  Thomas Jefferson on Attitude

• "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

  Winston Churchill on Attitude

More quotes by Denise Mina

• "In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents."

• "Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job."

• "We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles."

• "I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny."

• "I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in."