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.
~By Willem de Kooning ~
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.
~By Evan Parker ~
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.
~By Veronica Lake ~
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
~By Jane Addams ~
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.
~By Tom T. Hall ~
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.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
~By Graham Chapman ~
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.
~By Kid Rock ~
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
~By Bo Bennett ~
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
~By David Bailey ~
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.
~By Vernon A. Walters ~
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.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
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.
~By Allan Carr ~
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.
~By Dick Cheney ~
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.
~By Alfred Adler ~
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.
~By Gail Porter ~
Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.
~By Lita Ford ~
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.
~By Steven Biko ~
Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
~By William Minto ~
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.
~By Peter Bart ~
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.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
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.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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.
~By Jim Dine ~
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.
~By Mark Spitz ~
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.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
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.
~By Brit Hume ~
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.
~By Sue Wicks ~
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.
~By Eric Carr ~
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.
~By Ryan White ~
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.
~By Richard Dean Anderson ~
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
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.
~By Don Drysdale ~
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.
~By Dan Marino ~
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.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
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.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
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.
~By August Wilson ~
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.
~By Larisa Oleynik ~
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.
~By Wade Boggs ~
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.
~By Tobey Maguire ~
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.
~By Robert Collier ~
I will not get very far with this attitude.
~By Nancy Cartwright ~
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
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.
~By Ted Turner ~
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.
~By Michael Aston ~
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.
~By James S. Coleman ~
A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
~By Bessie Head ~
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.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
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.
~By Brian Tracy ~
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
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.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
~By Ellen Willis ~
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.
~By Nicholas Stern ~
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.
~By Charles Edwards ~
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.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
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.
~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
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.
~By Hermann Maier ~
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
~By George C. Williams ~
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.
~By Christie Brinkley ~
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
~By Walter Scott ~
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.
~By Elliot Richardson ~
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.
~By Jennifer Sky ~
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
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.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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.
~By Robert Kagan ~
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.
~By Pat Riley ~
Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.
~By Nick Lowe ~
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.
~By Venus Williams ~
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
~By John McCarthy ~
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.
~By Frank Press ~
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.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
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.
~By Jim Lampley ~
Pornography changes the attitudes and lifestyles of those who consume it, no matter how old a person is.
~By Donna Rice ~
I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
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.
~By Charles Edwards ~
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.
~By Pat Riley ~
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
~By Hans Selye ~
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.
~By Adriana Lima ~
If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.
~By Rob Walton ~
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
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.
~By Steve Forbes ~
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.
~By Christian Bale ~
I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.
~By Bela Kun ~
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.
~By Crystal Chappell ~
With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.
~By Doris Roberts ~
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
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.
~By Alan Price ~
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
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.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
~By Karl Popper ~
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
~By Joan Lunden ~
The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.
~By Mark Spitz ~
Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.
~By Dale Murphy ~
The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.
~By Cliff Shaw ~
Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
~By Mordecai Richler ~
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