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“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change
it, change your attitude.” - Maya
Angelou
*What does this quote mean to you? Do you think what she is
saying is as she makes it seem?
*Describe a time in your life when this quote was
applicable, were you able to change the situation or did you have to change in
order to make the situation easier? Explain using SPECIFIC examples
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” - Maya Angelou. This quote is extremely inspirational to me. This quote to me means that if you don’t have to power in you to change something you can learn to accept it. Though I don’t think she means to give up on something so easily. I think she actually means that you should change your approach towards the issue. If your on the offensive then try being more subtle or if you’re being to subtle then you have to be more aggressive to get what you want sometimes. This quote has proven itself to be correct in my very own life. In my life this quote was applicable when I learned about how rude some people I know can really be. I soon found out friendship is not all it’s cracked up to be. I did both change my self and change the issue. I had to change myself to accept that not everyone that you think is nice is in fact very mean at times. I also had to change the way those people where acting so I started to talk to them about how annoyingly rude they where to other people. By doing this I changed what they did and how I reacted to it. I thus had proved that Maya Angelo’s quote was very well informing and that people should try and live by this quote. It can help in many different situations where there is a problem. Like if you don’t like the was someone or something is acting like I had not you have to follow this quote. By doing that you can easily change the problem to a solution. That’s how I honestly feel about this quote.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this quote is very inspirational and how you said that this means not to give up so easily. and when you change you out look on people for how they act towards you and others really shows what Maya ment cause you can't change other people but you can change your view on them
DeleteI agree with you Justin. It was good that you said that this means not to give up so easily. Also how you said your out look on people for how they act towards you so your basically saying treat people how you want to be treated. I feel you comment really showed what maya ment on her quote.
DeleteMaya Angelou once said,“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” What I think this quote means to me is that it means is that if you don't like something, then try to change it but if you cant, then you have to change what you don't like about it. For example, sometimes you have to do something in life you don't want to do but you have to do it. This means you have to change your attitude because there is no way to get out of doing what you don't want to do. Life is about making choices but sometimes you will have to do something you don't want to do. If a person is doing something that you don't like, you could either try to change it, or try to deal with it. So you could easily try to fix something by either changing your attitude or change what it is that's bothering you. I think what she is saying is as seems to be. I like this quote because its true, that's what I think she means
ReplyDeleteThis is very true. I believe that you are right when it comes to if you need to do something you don't want to. You have to change your attitude. I think that about a job. Maybe it gets you a lot of money but you work with someone you don't like. Just change your attitude and just don't care.
DeleteI think the quote means that if you feel like you don't like something that you should change it if you don't like the change then you should your attitude or in other words it could be just you. you could just be over reacting. maybe your handling the situation wrong. i feel i can relate to this saying because something similar to this happened to me. people now these days are really childish and stubborn that's the wrong way to be. if you have a problem you should think of other options. maybe the way you approach things is wrong it could be your attitude. having a nasty attitude will never get you anywhere in life whether you pretty or handsome it doesn't mean anything.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your response. I agree that you could sometimes be over reacting on something that isn't a big of a deal. I also agree that having a nasty attitude will get you no where in life because people will not like you.
DeleteIf you don't like something, change it. If you change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou once said this quote. This quote means a lot to people. I think this quote means that if you don't agree or like something change it. I think that this second part of the quote means that you don't give up, but if there is absolutely no way that you can change it. You will have to change your attitude if that does not work. You also could maybe be look on the bright side. Or it could be yourself. Being all negative nelly is not the right attitude in life. I think what she is saying is the way that people see it. I think this is because the way that the quote comes off. It just has a good vibe to it.
ReplyDeleteI strongly agree with your statement. Your attitude changes everything and it makes an opinion go one or the other it could be good or bad. But we are mostly aiming for good and a lot of good comes from it. If you stay positive you have a better chance of changing something.
DeleteSean hughes i strongly agree with your statement, If i was able to rate your quote from a 1-10 scale i would.
DeleteIf you like something, change it. If you change it, change your attitude. This quote is saying that you have the ability to do anything your heart desires, no matter what it is. Usually, many people decide to change their weight, and by doing so, they go to the gym. Once they start going to the gym, their attitude has to change in order for them to start living a healthy lifestyle and being happy with their body. Another example would be a relationship's ups and downs. For example, being friends with someone is usually not always easy, considering that your friends have different opinions beliefs, attitudes, etc., than yourself. This could possibly cause conflict throughout your friendship, however with a change of attitude, you could learn to accept your friends as they are, allowing your friendship to continue for as long as it is meant to be. Maya Angelou says this quote as straight forward as possible, basically being blunt about how easy it is to change your outcome simply with your attitude. Despite altering the way things are, this quote also relates to situations that you do not have the power of changing. With this, your outcome is relatively the same, changing your attitude so that you could comply to the situation that you maybe be dealing with. For example, at school, you may be assigned a research paper on a specific date, and your procrastination leads you to realize that you have no more time to work on your research paper. Normally students would overreact with the lessened amount of time and not put effort into their paper as they would have when it was first assigned. Although with perseverance, effort, and of course a change of attitude, the research paper will be done and ready to be presented and later on handed in.
ReplyDeleteMaya Angelo once said "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” To me this quote means that you should be the change you want to see. If you don't like something you shouldn't just sit down and cry about it, you should get up and change it. People always say 1 person can't change the world and I believe that is true but I also believe that one person can start a change. A lot of times people just let something that bothers them keep bothering them and don't do anything about it but Angelo is saying go for it make that change and don't just ignore it. Now when she says If you can't change it, change your attitude is my favorite part in this quote. I feel that I am an over all happy person, I smile and laugh a lot but I also do know a lot of stuff I can't change that I wish I could but I can't. And sure just like everyone else when I don't get what I want I want to bang my head into a wall but that's not going to get me anywhere. All you have to do is turn your bad situation into a better one. There's always a little bit of good in everything and if you can't change what you want just fine a better look on the matter and don't crawl into a dark whole and do nothing.
ReplyDeleteI do think what she said is what she meant because even though everyone say if you don't like it change it like its no big deal but I feel this is a big deal for her. I feel this one of the better quotes too because she's showing you if one thing doesn't work there's another option.
Maya Angelo's wise words once stated, “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” I think this means that you have to adjust to things that you don't like. Or you should at least get the guts to change it or fix it. If you are able to accomplish this then you are one step further in your life. All you have to do is ask or man up. It doesn't take much to do.You just need to try. Because change doesn't always come on it's own account. And sometimes it might just be too late. So when it comes it has to be taken care of the second it happens or comes. This way your happy, and so is every one else. You just have to take your situations head on sometimes in order to get the outcome you demand. And depending on how you deal with it the results may vary.
ReplyDeleteThis relates to my life because my brother ordered a medium cooked burger with no cheese at a restaurant. But they gave him medium rare. So because he didn't have the guts to take it back I had too. So when he got a new one it had cheese and mayo on it and he specifically asked for none. And because he has type one diabetes he can't eat it after he didn't calculate in the cheese and mayo for his shot. So I had to send it back again then after that meal we never went back again.
I agree 100% everybody should have the guts to grow up and change something about themselves. who cares what anybody else has to say. its your opinion that matters. nobody's perfect but people have to change it's a part of life grow up.
DeleteMaya Angelou once said, “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” This could mean many things to many different people. What I think it means is that there are many different ways to avoid getting stumped on your road to success. It could also mean if you don’t like what you’re doing then don’t do it. If you can’t stop what you’re doing then find a better way to enjoy it. They are plenty of ways you find a path to success without stopping on your way there. Just find something that you enjoy and do it. You don’t have to keep doing what you don’t enjoy. It’s your life. Make it yours while you still can.
ReplyDeleteThere was one time in my life where I had to change something. It was when I was doing a project that I really didn’t want to do. I couldn’t give up and not do it because it was a grade. That grade was something I really needed. It determined whether or not I passed the marking period. So, there was only thing I could do. I had to change my attitude and get working on it. The project a lot easier and I ended up enjoying what I was doing. In the end, I handed in my project and got it back the week after. I had gotten a 95. That grade helped me out so much that it brought my grade from a 78 to an 84. So, Maya Angelou’s quote really helped me out. It helped me out when I really needed it. You should give it a try some time.
Maya Angelo once said “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” What this quote means to me is that, if you face hardship in life and find difficult problems to deal with and dont like them, then you have the opportunity to change them. Thats what i believe the first part of the quote means. The second part of the quote i believe means that maybe you are the one to make the hardships and the problems on yourself because you have a bad attitude and you have the chance to change that attitude to avoid problems and hardships in your life.
ReplyDeleteThis applies to my life because there have been many things that i have not liked before and didn't feel like doing them but i changed my way and what the thing was and it has helped me through things in life. For example, there are many people i truly hate. I deal with these people by by not talking to these people. But one day i decided to talk to this person and it ended up being that we became good friends and actually had a little more in common than we thought and thats what i think is an example of this quote. Also including the second part of me changing my attitude of hate towards him and changed it to a friendly manner that had made our friendship and made it increase into a good friendship. Thats what i think Maya Angelo meant by “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
I agree with your statement. I agree with what you said about facing hardship in life. I also enjoyed how you compared the quote with things that you didn't enjoy or hated. That was truly creative.
DeleteMaya Angelo once said "If you don't like something change it.If you cant change it, change your attitude." To me this quote can mean a lot it just depends on how you word it. I'm just saying it can mean if you don't like something and you can't make it right just forget about it and move on. Nothing comes easy in life and sometimes those things are hard to say but you got to move on. You just always got to stay positive and watch out.
ReplyDeleteThis relates to my life because i have went through some times myself. i don't like a lot of things and wish i could change them but its just not that easy. I wish I can change the way people act which would make things a whole lot easier but that's not going to happen. I just got to live with it and stay positive with my head up and go a long way. That's what I think Maya Angelo meant by "If you don't like something change it, If you cant change it change your attitude.
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ReplyDeleteMaya Angelou once said “if you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” This quote has so many meanings. This quote also means something to me. This quote means in my opinion, if you don’t like the outcome of something change it and if you cant change it you shouldn’t of been doing it that way in the first place. For example when I was younger I used to get okay grades compared to what I do now but when I was younger I would study and still get those grades, I changed how I did study and still it didn’t work. I think I started getting better grades because i changed my perspective of school. Seeing my sister going to colledge and nhs changed my way of thinking about school I actually wanted to get honoroll but when I was younger I really didn’t care. I realized that with out getting good grades I wouldn’t be able to go anywhere in life. After realizing that if I didn’t do well in school It would change the outcome of where I go to college and even what job I would be able to have when I was an adult really changed my attitude towards school and just life in general. I think what Maya angelous quote was straight forward. I think she meant exactly what she said. “if you don’t like something, change it. If you cant change it, change you r attitude.” What she meant was that if you don’t like something or the outcome of something change it but if you can not change it change your attitude towards what you can not change. why waste a bunch of time that you do not have to trying to change something that you cant change anyway. This was a very inspiring quote
ReplyDeleteMaya Angelou’s quote “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude,” means a lot to because I someone in my family would often say something that was very similar to what Maya is saying. I interrupted her quote to mean that if you are unpleased with something you have the power to make the best out of a situation. For example if you do not like a person that is in your class you have the power to relocate away from him or her, and if you are unable then you have the power to change your attitude. Something that comes to mind when I hear this quote is the old saying “don’t see a glass as half empty, but see it as half full.” I say this also because you will always have the power to make the best out a situation by just changing the way you “see” it. I do think what she is saying is as she makes it seem. I say this because Maya Angelou had a lot of obstacles to face when it came to racism and there had to be some occasions where she had to change her attitude In order to make the situation better.
ReplyDeleteOne real life experience I had that involved Maya Angelo’s quote “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude,” was when I was in 8th grade and got suspended. I’m not going to get into detail what happened to cause the suspension, however I will tell you how I made the best of it. While I was suspended I was left alone because my family was all working so I deiced to fix up our deck, clean my room, make dinner and finished up wash just so my mom didn’t have to do and I continued this up to my day were I would help of all the chores and to be honest I had fun doing it. Another example was when I snapped my wrist and was out of sports. At first I was really mad, however I later saw it as an opportunity to improve my grades which I did. That is how I used Maya Angelou’s quote “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude,” in my real life.