"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language." ― Joseph Brodsky Topic(s): Attitude More From Joseph Brodsky "I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside." "Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production." "Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family." More In Attitude "If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people’s, then that must feel pretty good."― Barbara Ehrenreich "Oh, I don’t think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That’s not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he’d prefer me to do it than somebody else."― Clarence Thomas "In the late ’70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn’t do TV and vice versa, but that’s gone now."― Robert Carlyle