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.
~By Donny Osmond ~
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.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
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.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
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 ~
Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes.
~By Josh Silver ~
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.
~By Tim Holden ~
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
~By Hans Selye ~
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.
~By Richard Pryor ~
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.
~By Hermann Maier ~
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 ~
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 ~
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
~By Allen Klein ~
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
~By Duke Ellington ~
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
~By Maya Angelou ~
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.
~By Amy Adams ~
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.
~By Peter Shilton ~
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 ~
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.
~By Edward Sapir ~
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.
~By Beck ~
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
~By Viktor E. Frankl ~
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
~By Bo Bennett ~
The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.
~By Jim Fowler ~
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.
~By Bill Mauldin ~
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 ~
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 ~
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
~By Major Owens ~
Funny is an attitude.
~By Flip Wilson ~
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
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.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
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.
~By Gene Barry ~
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
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.
~By Grandmaster Flash ~
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 ~
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
~By Alicia Witt ~
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 ~
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.
~By Fay Wray ~
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
~By Charles Revson ~
My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Gordon Gould ~
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
~By Michael Korda ~
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
~By William Minto ~
Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
~By Mordecai Richler ~
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
~By Lee Konitz ~
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 ~
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
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.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
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.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
I will not get very far with this attitude.
~By Nancy Cartwright ~
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.
~By Adriana Lima ~
A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
~By Bessie Head ~
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
~By Jose Saramago ~
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 ~
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.
~By Norman Lamm ~
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
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 ~
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 ~
I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
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.
~By Nick Clooney ~
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.
~By Carroll Shelby ~
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 ~
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 ~
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
~By Walter Scott ~
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.
~By Alan Shepard ~
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
~By George C. Williams ~
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.
~By Michael Ramsey ~
Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.
~By Dale Murphy ~
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.
~By William James ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By George H. Mead ~
Pornography changes the attitudes and lifestyles of those who consume it, no matter how old a person is.
~By Donna Rice ~
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.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
~By Arthur Holly Compton ~
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?
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.
~By Reese Schonfeld ~
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.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
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 ~
Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.
~By Terry Semel ~
Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.
~By Lita Ford ~
There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
~By Calvin Klein ~
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
'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 ~
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