My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd. ~By Arthur Holly Compton ~
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. ~By Joseph Brodsky ~
When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude. ~By Richard Pryor ~
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. ~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
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. ~By William James ~
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. ~By Walter Benjamin ~
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. ~By Bill Mauldin ~
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 ~
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 ~
My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em. ~By Loretta Lynn ~
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. ~By Agatha Christie ~
My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face. ~By Simon Cowell ~
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 ~
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. ~By Ivan Illich ~
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 ~
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. ~By Paul Ryan ~
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 ~
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. ~By Shane Warne ~
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 attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. ~By Jose Saramago ~
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. ~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes. ~By Josh Silver ~
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. ~By Gemma Arterton ~
Attitudes are more important than facts. ~By George MacDonald ~
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 ~
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 ~
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. ~By James Welch ~
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. ~By Oprah Winfrey ~
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it. ~By Joan Lunden ~
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. ~By Scott Brown ~
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ~By Ellen Willis ~
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 ~
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 ~
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. ~By Waylon Jennings ~
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. ~By Jason Bateman ~
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. ~By Mike Judge ~
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. ~By Michael Korda ~
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project. ~By Herbie Hancock ~
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. ~By Bram Cohen ~
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. ~By Harold S. Geneen ~
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. ~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. ~By Alan Perlis ~
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. ~By Walter Pater ~
'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.' ~By Dwight Schultz ~
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 ~
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. ~By Carmen Electra ~
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. ~By Paul Harvey ~
I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good. ~By Sharon Gless ~
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. ~By Sidney Sheldon ~
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 ~
I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song. ~By Gwen Stefani ~
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. ~By Tony Hillerman ~
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~By Kathleen Turner ~
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~By Scott Hamilton ~
But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude. ~By Jon Fishman ~
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. ~By Brit Hume ~
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. ~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. ~By Tim Holden ~
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. ~By Ed McMahon ~
The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care. ~By Jim Fowler ~
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. ~By Romeo LeBlanc ~
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. ~By William Griffith Wilson ~
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. ~By Benny Green ~
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. ~By Steven Biko ~
I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets. ~By Todd Tiahrt ~
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. ~By Vic Snyder ~
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. ~By Khalil Gibran ~
There has been a change in attitude, though. ~By Daniel Petrie ~
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. ~By Diane Wakoski ~
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. ~By Luke Scott ~
Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all. ~By Mordecai Richler ~
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. ~By Charles Revson ~
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. ~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music. ~By Lee Konitz ~
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 ~
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. ~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
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. ~By Prince Charles ~
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~By Katherine Mansfield ~
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~By Hugh Downs ~
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. ~By Herbert Read ~
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ~By Lee Iacocca ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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. ~By Neil Diamond ~
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. ~By Rick Derringer ~
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 ~
Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight. ~By Dale Murphy ~
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ~By Maya Angelou ~
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. ~By Yousuf Karsh ~
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. ~By Alan Watts ~
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone. ~By Alicia Witt ~
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 ~
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. ~By June Jordan ~
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. ~By Allen Klein ~
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. ~By Michael Hutchence ~
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 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. ~By Mick Taylor ~
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 ~
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. ~By William James ~
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