Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

Whatever the attitude, so is the response.

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Success is based on your perspective.

The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.

Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

It works. People respond to it.