Quotes and Sayings about Attitude
"Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Government, Fear, Attitude, Press, Suspicion, Workers)
"I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled."
- Amy Adams
(Related: People, Attitude, Positive, Attention)
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Life, Attitude, Discovery, Man, Mind)
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Attitude, Voice)
"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Men, Civilization, Attitude, Living, Respect)
"It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Measure, Wishes)
"I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Attitude, Care)
"I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Time, People, Ideas, Liberal)
"Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Nature, Attitude, Friends, Light, Nothing)
"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life."
- Walter Anderson
(Related: Life, Attitude, May)
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Change, Attitude)
"I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Attitude, Prison)
"People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked."
- Asia Argento
(Related: Sex, People)
"My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that."
- Gemma Arterton
(Related: Money, Mother, Attitude, Christmas, Fact, Months, Nothing)
"Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans."
- Timothy Garton Ash
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Religious)
"The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Attitude)
"Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Attitude, Personality, Reflection, Style)
"I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice."
- Michael Aston
(Related: Attitude, Cause, Children, Liberal, Voice)
"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me."
- David Bailey
(Related: Dreams, Attitude, Positive)
"I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there."
- Howard Baker
(Related: Government, Travel, Visit, Washington, Will)
"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, People, Attitude, End, Living, Theory)
"The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know."
- Gene Barry
(Related: Attitude, Actor, Mind, Reading, Word)
"Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground."
- Peter Bart
(Related: Society, Gay, Open)
"Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have."
- Maria Bartiromo
(Related: Money, People, Attitude, Want)
"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does."
- Georg Baselitz
(Related: Work, Attitude, Artist, Responsibility)
"I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Life, Attitude, Possibility, Anxiety, Bombs, Chance, Inequality)
"People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude."
- Jason Bateman
(Related: People, Attitude, Gay)
"I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it."
- Don Baylor
(Related: Attitude, Hope, First, Solution)
"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."
- Beck
(Related: Art, Nature, Mother, Attitude)
"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards."
- Pope Benedict XVI
(Related: Faith, Attitude, Church, Teaching, Today, Wind)
"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."
- Walter Benjamin
(Related: Attitude, Purpose, Opinion, Press, Public, Public opinion)
"Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Family, Home, Time, Attitude, Improvement, Weekend)
"Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Saying)
"In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs."
- Henri Bergson
(Related: Art, Attitude, Eye, Man)
"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
- Irving Berlin
(Related: Power, Control, Day, Force, Importance)
"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Attitude, Majority, Respect)
"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Attitude, Being, Reflection)
"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Time, Life, Attitude, Positive, Consciousness, Mind, World)
"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."
- Harrison Birtwistle
(Related: Time, Attitude, Opera, Theatre, Years)
"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"
- Harrison Birtwistle
(Related: Attitude, Friends, Writing)
"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."
- Harrison Birtwistle
(Related: Music, Attitude, Sense)
"The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes."
- James W. Black
(Related: Home, Beginning, Boys)
"I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant."
- Ritchie Blackmore
(Related: Attitude)
"I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing."
- Ritchie Blackmore
(Related: Attitude)
"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results."
- Wade Boggs
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Thoughts, Causes, Events, Results)
"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life."
- Wade Boggs
(Related: Life, Attitude)
"I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know."
- Derek Bok
(Related: Attitude, Embarrassment)
"A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart."
- Tom Brady
(Related: Talent, People, Heart, Attitude)
"As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself."
- Hjalmar Branting
(Related: Interest, Nations, Will, World)
"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."
- William J. Brennan, Jr.
(Related: Jobs)
"After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Attitude, Body, First, Pregnancy)
"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
- Joseph Brodsky
(Related: Patriotism, Attitude, Language, Writer)
"Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not."
- Scott Brown
(Related: Health, People, Attitude, American, Care, Force, Opposition, Public, Washington)
"But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep."
- Peabo Bryson
(Related: Attitude, Sleep)
"Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Attitude)
"Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style."
- David Byrne
(Related: Attitude, Punk, Style)
"Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time."
- John Cale
(Related: Time, Attitude, Decision, Decisions)
"Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Change, Attitude, Past, Years)
"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Happiness, Attitude)
"If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial."
- Allan Carr
(Related: Attitude, Performance, First, Wrong)
"You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it."
- Eric Carr
(Related: Kiss, Attitude, Girls)
"I will not get very far with this attitude."
- Nancy Cartwright
(Related: Attitude, Will)
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
- Raymond Chandler
(Related: Motivation, Attitude, Ability)
"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."
- Raymond Chandler
(Related: Business, Attitude, Gentleman, Integrity, Talk)
"All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person."
- Graham Chapman
(Related: Ideas, Attitude, Causes, Emotion, Observation)
"I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference."
- Crystal Chappell
(Related: Attitude, Difference, Help, Support)
"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."
- Prince Charles
(Related: People, Want)
"I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem."
- Chevy Chase
(Related: Attitude, School)
"Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws."
- Stuart Chase
(Related: Attitude, Acceptance, Laws, Rejection)
"The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security."
- Dick Cheney
(Related: Attitude, Doubt, Judgment, National security)
"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Soul, Attitude, Actions, Crime, Habits, Mind, Will)
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Attitude, Difference)
"It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic."
- Nick Clooney
(Related: War, Attitude, American, Friends, Iraq)
"I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude."
- Kurt Cobain
(Related: Time, Attitude)
"In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Work, Attitude, Being, Dress)
"Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Attitude, Liberalism, Questioning, Self, Support)
"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Sympathy, Philosophy, Present, Will)
"Attitude determines the altitude of life."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Life, Attitude)
"For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Change, Attention)
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."
- Robert Collier
(Related: People, Attitude, Negative, Positive, Difference)
"I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude."
- Joan Collins
(Related: People, Attitude, Being, Countries)
"My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd."
- Arthur Holly Compton
(Related: Attitude, Feeling, First)
"My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face."
- Simon Cowell
(Related: Attitude)
"The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional."
- James Cromwell
(Related: Attitude, Animals, Pets)
"Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided."
- Charles Curtis
(Related: Prejudice)
"Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!"
- Miley Cyrus
"It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like."
- Charles Dance
(Related: People, Attitude, Eyes, Open, Play, Question)
"I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude."
- Glenn Danzig
(Related: Attitude)
"I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work."
- Rick Derringer
(Related: Work, Nature, Attitude, Pretty, Support)
"I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration."
- Neil Diamond
(Related: Inspiration, Attitude, Perfection)
"My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can."
- Jim Dine
(Related: Attitude, Talking)
"Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long."
- Milovan Djilas
(Related: Life)
"All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind."
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
(Related: Change, Attitude, Mind)
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
- Hugh Downs
(Related: Circumstances)
"Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards."
- Don Drysdale
"There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants."
- Eliza Dushku
(Related: Attitude)
"We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice."
- Lawrence Eagleburger
(Related: Business, Attitude, Advice, Care, Help, Right)
"I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game."
- Dennis Eckersley
(Related: Attitude)
"When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order."
- Meister Eckhart
(Related: Attitude, Order)
"An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited."
- Charles Edwards
(Related: Life, Attitude, Wealth, Environment, Fulfillment, Materialism, Pursuit, World)
"Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions."
- Charles Edwards
"A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live."
- Elizabeth Edwards
(Related: Time, Attitude, Positive, Day, Now)
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Attitude, Character, Weakness)
"I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough."
- Carmen Electra
(Related: Attitude, Ballet, School)
"My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Attitude)
"America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China."
- Jo Ann Emerson
(Related: War, Attitude, Control, America, Trade)
"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Attitude, Order)
"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Time, Civilization, Attitude, Direction, Present)
"When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety."
- Robert Evans
(Related: Attitude, Anxiety)
"The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
- Marilyn Ferguson
(Related: Change, Revolution)
"The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel."
- Lou Ferrigno
(Related: Attitude, Behavior)
"The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Challenge, College, Learning, Sheep, Students)
"But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude."
- Jon Fishman
(Related: Music, Attitude, Religious)
"I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer."
- Jon Fishman
(Related: Life, Music, Goal, Positive, Evil, Fight, Nothing, Play, World)
"We've been seeing some good things from Randy. We're starting to see that Randy Johnson attitude that we've been looking forward to seeing."
- John Flaherty
(Related: Attitude)
"What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did."
- Grandmaster Flash
(Related: Attitude)
"I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude."
- Richard Fleeshman
(Related: Attitude, Friends)
"The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally."
- Steve Forbes
(Related: Home, Government, Attitude, American, Example, Numbers, Parents, Public, Schools)
"It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude."
- Lita Ford
(Related: Attitude, Play)
"Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe."
- Lita Ford
(Related: Attitude)
"I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women."
- Lita Ford
(Related: Men, Music, Women, Attitude, Play)
"Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant."
- Pim Fortuyn
(Related: Attitude, Homosexuality)
"The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: People, Care, Challenge, Public)
"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Attitude, Ability, Circumstances)
"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Attitude, Circumstances, Man, Woman)
"Attitude is everything."
- Diane von Furstenberg
(Related: Attitude)
"If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor."
- Teri Garr
(Related: Humor, Attitude, Sense, Therapy)
"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: People, Attitude, Performance)
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Leadership, Attitude, Actions, Words)
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Life, Attitude, Living, Mind)
"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
- William Glasser
(Related: Change, Behavior, Want)
"I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good."
- Sharon Gless
(Related: Men, Attitude)
"Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through."
- Lesley Gore
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Problems)
"That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics."
- Gordon Gould
(Related: Attitude, Physics, Today)
"If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life."
- Billy Graham
(Related: Life, Money, Attitude, Help, Will)
"It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray."
- Billy Graham
(Related: Heart, Attitude, Body)
"It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order."
- Asa Gray
(Related: Men, Attitude, Christian, Beliefs, Order, Thoughtful)
"Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed."
- Benny Green
(Related: Time, Attitude)
"My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel."
- John Grierson
(Related: Attitude, Planning, State, Will)
"Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press."
- Thomas Griffith
(Related: Attitude, Now, Press, Public, Skepticism)
"You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'"
- Lewis Grizzard
(Related: Attitude, Dogs, Want, Will)
"I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent."
- Taylor Hackford
(Related: Talent, Attitude)
"When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please."
- Tom T. Hall
(Related: Life, Work, Attitude, Journey)
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."
- Scott Hamilton
(Related: Life, Attitude, Disability)
"It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Attitude, Project, Style)
"The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight."
- W. Averell Harriman
(Related: War, Attitude)
"Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East."
- Marvin Harris
(Related: Attitude)
"Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people."
- Paul Harvey
(Related: People, Arguments, Poor)
"Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light."
- Henry S. Haskins
(Related: Experience, Attitude, Light)
"A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people."
- Bessie Head
(Related: Love, People, Attitude, Discipline)
"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."
- Seamus Heaney
(Related: Home, Attitude, Habit, Authority, Ireland)
"Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy."
- Edward Heath
(Related: Policy, Attitude, Abhorrence)
"I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Love, Women, Respect)
"Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best."
- Marilu Henner
(Related: Attitude, Positive)
"The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Intelligence, Learning)
"It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable."
- Theodor Herzl
(Related: People, Attitude, Goal, Fate, Fathers, Land, May, Palestine, Saying)
"I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites."
- Tony Hillerman
(Related: Time, Attitude, Mind, Respect)
"I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: People, Attitude, Credit, Deals, Tennis)
"Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: Age, Life, Time, University)
"The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Society, Values, Events)
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Attitude, Mind)
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Time, Attitude, Character, Result)
"It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes."
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Women, Force, Sexes)
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul, Attitude, Thoughts, Body, Moments)
"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
- Johan Huizinga
(Related: Attitude, Culture, Emotions, Expression)
"There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins."
- Brit Hume
(Related: American, Journalism)
"Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised."
- Brit Hume
(Related: Attitude, Skill)
"I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style."
- Michael Hutchence
(Related: Attitude, Style)
"I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes."
- Michael Hutchence
(Related: People)
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
- Lee Iacocca
(Related: Discovery, Mind)
"The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts."
- Ivan Illich
(Related: People, Attitude, Acceptance, American, Americans, Blessings, Gifts, May)
"What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books."
- Christopher Isherwood
(Related: People, Attitude, Books, Injustice, Laws, Saying)
"Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you."
- Hugh Jackman
(Related: Attitude, Americans, Being, Country, Europe, Job)
"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."
- Jesse Jackson
(Related: Attitude, Hope, Students, Today, Will)
"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
- Helmut Jahn
(Related: Architecture, Attitude, American, Efficiency, Execution)
"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."
- William James
(Related: Men, Success, Successful, Attitude, Failure, Positive, Act, Reality, Results, Will)
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
- William James
(Related: Life, Being, Discovery)
"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
- William James
(Related: Attitude, Conflict, Difference)
"There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse."
- William James
(Related: Attitude, Religious)
"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
- William James
(Related: Mind)
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
- William James
(Related: Successful, Attitude, Beginning, Will)
"If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts."
- Karl Jaspers
(Related: History, Attitude, Living, Philosophy, Practice)
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Attitude, Goal, Earth, Help, Man, Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching."
- Ferguson Jenkins
(Related: Attitude)
"Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it."
- Waylon Jennings
(Related: Music, Attitude)
"I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians."
- Elton John
(Related: Love, Food, History, Life, People)
"Most of us believe outside situations shape our attitudes when, in fact, it is our view of the situations that shape our attitudes."
- Darren L. Johnson
(Related: Fact)
"We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset."
- Darren L. Johnson
(Related: Success, Attitude, Key, Talk)
"If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better."
- Magic Johnson
(Related: Work, Attitude, First)
"That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes."
- June Jordan
(Related: Attitude, Activism, Enemy, Fighting)
"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."
- Michael Jordan
(Related: Attitude, Strength, Weakness, Will)
"The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture."
- Donald Judd
(Related: Ideas, Attitude, Possibility, Old)
"I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude."
- Mike Judge
(Related: Money, Attitude, Friends, Relationships)
"Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards."
- Robert Kagan
(Related: Difference, Europe, Old, Question, Right, Sense, World)
"There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record."
- Yousuf Karsh
(Related: Soul, Attitude, Eyes, Man, Mind, Spirit)
"I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes."
- Lawrence Kasdan
(Related: Movies, Feelings, Attitude, First)
"Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades."
- Florence Kelley
(Related: Women, Attitude, Revolution, Generations, Space)
"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made."
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
(Related: Time, War, Attitude, May, Prohibition, Protest, Temperance)
"In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview."
- Michael Kinsley
(Related: Women, People, Attitude)
"My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: Attitude, Enthusiasm, Expression, Sensuality)
"Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up."
- Allen Klein
(Related: Humor, Attitude, Colors, Will, World)
"You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it."
- Allen Klein
(Related: Change, Humor, Attitude, May)
"There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Change, Men, Clothes, Fashion)
"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
- Donald Knuth
(Related: Change, Attitude, Computer, Want)
"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music."
- Lee Konitz
(Related: Music, Ego)
"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves."
- Willem de Kooning
(Related: Nature, Attitude, Hope, Artist, Order)
"The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Attitude, Agitation, Consideration)
"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Related: Power, Heart, Attitude, Class, Confusion, Hate, Will)
"If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars."
- Satish Kumar
(Related: Nature, Attitude, Animals)
"I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades."
- Bela Kun
(Related: Attitude)
"We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past."
- Aleksander Kwasniewski
(Related: History, Attitude, Nation, Past, Responsibility, Service)
"I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that."
- Veronica Lake
(Related: Life, Attitude, Pretty)
"It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come."
- Dalai Lama
(Related: Happiness, Heart, Attitude, Will)
"If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans."
- Christopher Lambert
(Related: Attitude, Fans, Fun, Pleasure)
"Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state."
- Norman Lamm
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Israel, Land, State)
"We're way too much the same person, Larry. I mean, you know, way too much the same person. We have basically the same attitudes, desires, drives. And we see ourselves the same way."
- Jim Lampley
"The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Family, Abortion, Bigotry, Crime, Curriculum, Defense, Nothing, Popular, School, Superstition)
"I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that."
- Jerry Lawler
(Related: People, Chance)
"We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart."
- Romeo LeBlanc
(Related: Legal, Heart, Canada, Debt, May, Old)
"I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes."
- Geddy Lee
(Related: Work, Attitude, Extreme, Extremes, Pretty)
"Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude."
- Juliette Lewis
(Related: People, Attitude, Fame, Man, Whisper)
"Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong."
- Adriana Lima
(Related: Beauty, Attitude, Fashion, Want)
"You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous."
- Adriana Lima
(Related: Attitude, Famous)
"A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit."
- Ted Lindsay
(Related: Family, Manager, Attitude, Resentment, Rumors)
"I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so."
- Nia Long
(Related: Money, Attitude, Care, Journey, Research, Spicy)
"The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones."
- Nick Lowe
(Related: People, Attitude, Musicians, Play, Road, World)
"Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it."
- Nick Lowe
(Related: Attitude)
"A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it."
- Joan Lunden
(Related: Work, Attitude, Positive)
"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Men, Attitude)
"Attitudes are more important than facts."
- George MacDonald
(Related: Facts)
"I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now."
- Tobey Maguire
(Related: Attitude, Hope, Now, Thinking, Years)
"I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original."
- Margaret Mahy
(Related: Work, Character, Style, Writers, Writing)
"As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career."
- Hermann Maier
(Related: Time, Change, Attitude, Career, Ending, Racing, Ski)
"My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control."
- Hermann Maier
(Related: Attitude, Control, Now, Pressure, Racing)
"I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe."
- Peter Mandelson
(Related: Attitude, Europe)
"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
- Og Mandino
(Related: Attitude, Questions)
"In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Gratitude, Attitude)
"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Change, Life, Attitude)
"What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude."
- Marcel Marceau
(Related: Attitude)
"As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too."
- Dan Marino
(Related: Attitude, Fun)
"When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do."
- Mick Mars
(Related: Attitude, Alcohol, Mind)
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."
- Ralph Marston
(Related: Attitude, Excellence, Skill)
"Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude."
- Bill Mauldin
(Related: Attitude, Living, Soldiers)
"We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice."
- John C. Maxwell
(Related: Choice, Now, Right)
"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."
- John C. Maxwell
(Related: Life, Day, Responsibility)
"So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position."
- Thom Mayne
(Related: Art, Time, Attitude, Media, Public)
"If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Attitude, Arguments, Attention, Wrong)
"But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Change, Attitude, Media, Sea)
"Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart."
- Josh McDowell
(Related: God, Heart, Attitude, Prayer, Talking, Words)
"When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody."
- John McGahern
(Related: Thought, Attitude, Killing, Kissing)
"There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude."
- Ed McMahon
(Related: Attitude, Night, Planning, Tomorrow)
"To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation."
- George H. Mead
(Related: Art, Life, Nature, Attitude, Appreciation, Living, May)
"The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics."
- Ed Miliband
(Related: Politics, Ideas)
"An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him."
- William Minto
(Related: Attitude, Belief, Doubt, Joy, Judgment, Man)
"Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: War, Attitude, Destruction, Mind, Nothing)
"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."
- John N. Mitchell
(Related: Life, Attitude)
"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world."
- Alfred A. Montapert
(Related: Faith, Power, People, Control, Negative, Positive, Thoughts, Fate, World)
"Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine."
- Kenneth More
(Related: Life, Attitude, Philosophy)
"There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion."
- Samantha Mumba
(Related: Age, Attitude, American, Artists, Opinion, Want)
"No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude."
- Rupert Murdoch
(Related: Travel, Attitude, English, Language)
"Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight."
- Dale Murphy
(Related: Attitude)
"There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it."
- Len G. Murray
(Related: Attitude, Play)
"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."
- V. S. Naipaul
(Related: Attitude, Past)
"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."
- Patricia Neal
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Miracles, Will, Wonder)
"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."
- Holly Near
(Related: Women, World)
"The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Attitude, Consideration)
"Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption."
- Robert Nelson
(Related: Americans, Coffee, Driving)
"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations."
- Earl Nightingale
(Related: Work, Environment, Expectations, World)
"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."
- Earl Nightingale
(Related: Change, Attitude)
"Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us."
- Earl Nightingale
(Related: Attitude)
"Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet."
- Earl Nightingale
(Related: Attitude)
"I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may."
- Leonard Nimoy
(Related: Attitude, Adventure, Journey, May)
"What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Anger, Change, Performance, Deep, Excellence)
"Our attitudes have changed a lot, really, and so there's a certain toughness about it."
- Jeremy Northam
"After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude."
- Phillip Noyce
(Related: Attitude, Actors, Children, Hollywood, Years)
"I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar."
- Ted Nugent
(Related: Life, Attitude, Fire, Guitar, Spirit, Waking)
"I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly."
- Larisa Oleynik
(Related: Life, Mom, Attitude, Now, Silly)
"My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down."
- Donny Osmond
(Related: Father, Attitude, Challenge)
"Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."
- Joel Osteen
(Related: Life, Attitude, Positive)
"The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged."
- Major Owens
(Related: Attitude)
"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language."
- Evan Parker
(Related: Music, People, Attitude, Language, Sharing)
"Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."
- Walter Pater
(Related: Attitude, Day, Evening, Gifts, Sleep, Sun)
"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."
- Norman Vincent Peale
(Related: Successful, Day, Mind, Speech, State, Will)
"When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him."
- Norman Vincent Peale
(Related: Attitude)
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."
- Norman Vincent Peale
(Related: Success, Attitude, Failure, Defeat, Fact, May)
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
- Alan Perlis
(Related: Attitude, Measure, Perspective, Vitality)
"There has been a change in attitude, though."
- Daniel Petrie
(Related: Change, Attitude)
"I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem."
- Tom Petty
(Related: Life, Attitude, Self)
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
- Jean Piaget
(Related: Health, Mother, Attitude, Departure, Mental health, Poor, Reality)
"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world."
- Harold Pinter
(Related: Attitude, Iraq, Rest, Symbol, World)
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
- Karl Popper
(Related: Attitude, Argument, Effect, Man, Want, Will)
"So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks."
- Gail Porter
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Care, Friends)
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Attitude, Habit, Excellence)
"My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them."
- Frank Press
(Related: Work, Attitude, Problems, Students)
"As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs."
- Alan Price
(Related: Animals, Being, Needs, Spirit)
"The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Time, Attitude, Thinking)
"It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage."
- Alain Prost
(Related: Attitude)
"When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude."
- Richard Pryor
(Related: Money, Attitude)
"I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get."
- Richard Pryor
(Related: Work, Attitude, Jobs, School)
"The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training."
- Carroll Quigley
(Related: Nature, Attitude, Christian, Human nature, Personality, Training)
"Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so."
- Michael Ramsey
(Related: Faith, Knowledge, Action, Attitude, Being, Mind, Possession, Reason)
"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards."
- Joseph Ratzinger
(Related: Faith, Attitude, Church, Teaching, Today, Wind)
"There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain."
- Robert Rauschenberg
(Related: Language, Pain, Painting, Struggle)
"Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948."
- Simon Raven
(Related: God, Attitude, Bed)
"The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."
- Herbert Read
(Related: Attitude, Belief, Positive, Despair, Today)
"Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit."
- Martha Reeves
(Related: Work, Attitude, Majority)
"I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do."
- Mary Lou Retton
(Related: Love, Attitude, Appearance, Speech)
"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
- Charles Revson
(Related: Change, Attitude, Fate)
"All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master."
- Joshua Reynolds
(Related: Children, Dancing)
"Pornography changes the attitudes and lifestyles of those who consume it, no matter how old a person is."
- Donna Rice
(Related: Old, Pornography)
"But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people."
- Cliff Richard
(Related: People, Attitude)
"I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes."
- Elliot Richardson
(Related: Life, Thought, Attitude, Day, Job, Mission)
"You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it."
- Miranda Richardson
(Related: Attitude)
"Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all."
- Mordecai Richler
"There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning."
- Pat Riley
(Related: Motivation, Attitude, Winning, Needs)
"Great effort springs naturally from great attitude."
- Pat Riley
(Related: Attitude, Effort)
"If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges."
- Pat Riley
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Effort, Problems, Will)
"With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me."
- Doris Roberts
(Related: Life, Talent, People, Attitude)
"People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs."
- Jill Robinson
(Related: People, Dogs, Past, World, Years)
"That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it."
- Kid Rock
(Related: Love, Music, Attitude)
"We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost."
- Roy Romer
(Related: Education, Technology, Quality, Attitude)
"The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Attitude)
"I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts."
- Geoffrey Rush
(Related: Attitude, Being, Country, England, Sheep, Value, Years)
"What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Ideas, Attitude, Country, Debt, Numbers, Right)
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Related: Attitude, Lies, Meaning)
"Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone."
- Margaret Sanger
(Related: Mother, Attitude, Children, Freedom, Man, May, Will, Woman)
"The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant."
- Edward Sapir
(Related: Attitude, Independence, Language, Man)
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
- Jose Saramago
(Related: Attitude, Americans, Relationships)
"Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems."
- Fritz Sauckel
(Related: Life, Love, Politics, Attitude, Problems, Today)
"Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus."
- Jessica Savitch
(Related: Family, Attitude, Conflict, Danger, Focus, Interest, Potential)
"That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now."
- John Schlesinger
(Related: Women, Attitude, May, Now)
"I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate."
- Reese Schonfeld
(Related: American)
"'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'"
- Dwight Schultz
(Related: Attitude, Philosophy, Want)
"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
- E. F. Schumacher
(Related: Eagles, Will)
"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."
- David Joseph Schwartz
(Related: Act, Mind, Thinking)
"Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia."
- Luke Scott
(Related: Life, Attitude, America, Country, Russia)
"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."
- Walter Scott
(Related: Business, Success, Attitude, Failure)
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."
- Walter Scott
(Related: Success, Attitude, Ability)
"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."
- Hans Selye
(Related: Attitude, Negative, Positive, Right, Stress)
"Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer."
- Terry Semel
(Related: Attitude, Customer)
"The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals."
- Cliff Shaw
(Related: Ideals)
"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
- Irwin Shaw
(Related: Books)
"I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict."
- Carroll Shelby
(Related: People, Attitude, Nothing)
"I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far."
- Sidney Sheldon
(Related: Time, People, Countries)
"I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting."
- Sidney Sheldon
(Related: Time, Action, Accuracy)
"The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that."
- Alan Shepard
(Related: Attitude)
"The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom."
- Peter Shilton
(Related: Money, Attitude, Celebrity, Freedom, Media, Memories, Today)
"Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes."
- Josh Silver
(Related: Time, Style, Writing)
"What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?"
- Clifford D. Simak
(Related: Faith, Truth, Attitude, Christian, Man, Proof)
"My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it."
- Rob Simmons
(Related: Attitude, Tax, Opponents)
"Cock your hat - angles are attitudes."
- Frank Sinatra
"I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all."
- Jennifer Sky
(Related: Change, Attitude, Character, Film)
"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: People, Attitude, Americans, Contempt, London, Understanding, Yuppies)
"If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat."
- Vic Snyder
(Related: Attitude, Americans, Majority)
"The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game."
- Boris Spassky
(Related: Society, People, Attitude, Chess)
"The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude."
- Mark Spitz
(Related: Attitude)
"By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago."
- Mark Spitz
(Related: People, Attitude, Years)
"Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude."
- Bart Starr
(Related: Power, Attitude, Competition)
"I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song."
- Gwen Stefani
(Related: Attitude, Song)
"I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food."
- Nicholas Stern
(Related: Change, Food, People, Content, Drinking, Driving, Eating, Now, Will)
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: People, Attitude, Negative, Positive, Difference)
"Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Negative, Thoughts)
"Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Experience, Success, People, Attitude, Failure, Positive, Thoughts, Learning, Order)
"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Attitude, Sales)
"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
- Tom Stoppard
(Related: Attitude)
"There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work."
- Kiefer Sutherland
(Related: Movies, Work, Attitude, Hope, Film, Intentions, World)
"When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Attitude, Vision)
"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Life, Words)
"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Change, People, Attitude, Act, Fact, Past, Play)
"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Education, Money, People, Attitude, Appearance, Circumstances, Past, Skill)
"The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Attitude, Choice, Day, Remarkable, Will)
"The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique."
- Mick Taylor
(Related: Attitude, Ability, Style)
"While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for."
- Robert Teeter
(Related: Work, Government, People, Distrust)
"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
(Related: Attitude, Style)
"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made."
- E. P. Thompson
(Related: Attitude, Decision, Information, Open, World)
"The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude."
- Johnny Thunders
(Related: Attitude, Nothing)
"I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets."
- Todd Tiahrt
(Related: Attitude, Media, Nation, Secrets)
"Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree."
- Hideki Tojo
(Related: Circumstances, England, states, United)
"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Attitude, Actors)
"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
- Brian Tracy
(Related: Change, Attitude, Control, Will)
"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
- Brian Tracy
(Related: Gratitude, Attitude)
"Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Men, Women, Sex, Attitude, Being, Symbol)
"I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out."
- Ted Turner
(Related: Attitude, Right, Today)
"It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique."
- Shania Twain
(Related: Dream, Attitude, Creativity, Difference, Songs)
"Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit."
- Paul Twitchell
(Related: Attitude, Infinite, Spirit, Spiritual)
"Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image."
- Carrie Underwood
(Related: Attitude, Being, Company)
"Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows."
- Paul Valery
(Related: Attitude, Nothing)
"Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Attitude, Baseball, Theatre)
"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Talent, Attitude)
"I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc."
- Diane Wakoski
(Related: Beauty, Women, Sex, Ideas, Attitude, Language, Poets, Race)
"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances."
- J. Donald Walters
(Related: Happiness, Attitude, Determination, Circumstances, Mind)
"Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral."
- Vernon A. Walters
(Related: Intelligence, Attitude, Americans, Want)
"If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy."
- Rob Walton
(Related: Women, Behavior, Question)
"With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude."
- Shane Warne
(Related: Attitude, Goal, Ambition, Class, Cricket, First, Play)
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Faith, Truth, Attitude, Open)
"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Faith, Attitude, Belief)
"The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves."
- James Welch
(Related: Society, Funny, Attitude)
"We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around."
- Ryan White
(Related: Faith, Family, Education, Patience, Understanding)
"Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture."
- Sue Wicks
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Winning, Day, Practice)
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Morality, People, Attitude)
"Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century."
- George C. Williams
(Related: Understanding)
"Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude."
- Treat Williams
(Related: Attitude, Act)
"Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there."
- Venus Williams
(Related: People, Attitude, Right)
"My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect."
- Ellen Willis
(Related: Attitude, Impulses)
"Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history."
- August Wilson
(Related: History, Music, Attitude, Forget, Jazz, Trouble)
"Funny is an attitude."
- Flip Wilson
(Related: Funny, Attitude)
"We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it."
- William Griffith Wilson
(Related: Thought, Attitude, Effort, Liquor, Will)
"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."
- Oprah Winfrey
(Related: Change, Time, Attitude, Discovery, Future)
"Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone."
- Alicia Witt
(Related: Change, Attitude, Acting)
"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
(Related: Religion, Sex, Attitude, Church, Being, Ceremony, Culture, Night, Present, Religious)
"The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion."
- Tom Wolfe
(Related: Change, Religion, Time, Attitude, Values, Example, Freedom)
"My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors."
- James Woods
(Related: Death, Attitude, Favors, Hollywood, Snow)
"My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that."
- Fay Wray
(Related: People, Feelings, Thoughts, Universe)
"The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large."
- Wilhelm Wundt
(Related: Feelings, Attitude, Psychology, Sensations)
"Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective."
- Francis Parker Yockey
(Related: Attitude, Pessimism, Facts)
"Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude."
- Angus Young
(Related: People, Attitude)
"In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized."
- Clara Zetkin
(Related: Women, Attitude, Wages, Workers)
"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations."
- Zig Ziglar
(Related: Life)
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
- Zig Ziglar
(Related: Attitude, Will)