Employees and their bosses both tend to adopt certain attitudes in the office. (inc.com)
Nevertheless, certain attitudes so stand in the way that if one holds them he is not likely to get far with his praying. (religion-online.org)
Since they considered philosophy a means of inner transformation rather than a purely theoretical endeavor, the ancients aimed not at resolving abstract problems or thinking systematically but at preparing themselves for truth and making themselves susceptible to it by cultivating certain attitudes of mind: equanimity and absence of worry ataraxia), independence (autarkeia), good disposition euthumia), and so forth. (firstthings.com)