Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.
Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!
Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.
English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.
Of front-line importance among the most contagious and enduring traits of the leaders of nations and of all callings is that of spotless character.
Energy is contagious: either you affect people or you infect people.
An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.
Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.
I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.
Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.
Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.
Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.
I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.
The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.
Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.
The Andromeda strain is a killer disease that they've got to prevent from spreading to being 100 percent contagious. It's another one where we're racing to save humanity.
Fear is hugely contagious. Used skillfully by politicians looking to manipulate voters, it can become toxic and capable of infecting more than just a few.
A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves, 'Is mine worth catching?'
Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.
History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.
It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.
Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders, is selfishness.
A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.
The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.
The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.
Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.
When I left Tinder, I had no intention of getting back into the dating industry. What I ultimately wanted to do was start this contagious complimentary social network, where kindness was at the helm.
When the Asian flu hit the United States in 1957, during the Eisenhower administration, it was just the latest contagion college students had faced in a lifetime of contagious diseases.
People will always want to get together in groups at plays and have the contagious thing of someone laughing with them.
An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.
Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.
I caught the happy virus last night
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me.
I can’t touch him. (Jared) Well, don’t you suck. (Stryker) Oh, believe me, I couldn’t agree more. Just be grateful it’s not contagious. (Jared)
Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.
One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.
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