A Quote by Eric Butterworth

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Eric Butterworth

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Attitudes Conditions Forerunners

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Eric Butterworth
Canadian - Educator
September 12, 1916 - April 17, 2003

Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.

Gautama Buddha

Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.

Mao Zedong

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

Jane Roberts

In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.

Malcolm X

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

Akio Morita

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Audre Lorde

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Charles Curtis

Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.

Mordecai Richler

We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.

Woody Hayes

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

Russell Simmons

For organisations, flexibility is a must to cope with fluctuations in demand and remain competitive, and people must be able to develop adaptable attitudes to quickly embrace evolving business conditions, new business opportunities, and shifting strategies.

Alain Dehaze

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

Rumi

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Geraldine Brooks

I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.

Jim Oberweis

I like filming in New York a lot myself, but London is accommodating to me; the weather's very good there and the conditions for shooting and the financial conditions, the artistic conditions are good, so it's a pleasant place to shoot.