Here we have the best Attitude Quotes from famous authors such as Philip Treacy, Steve Forbes, Baker Mayfield, Marianne Faithfull, Kathleen Turner. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
You’ve got to have the same attitude each day. You’ve got to show up to work.
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.
Attitude determines the altitude of life.
There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don’t think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
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.
I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.
Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.
It’s better for me to play with guys because Rock ‘n’ Roll has such an aggressive attitude.
Surfers have the most attitude.
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.
It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top – in business or in sports.
My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.
I don’t mind failing, because I see it as an opportunity to try again and eventually succeed. Having this attitude and sharing it with young girls encourages them.
I’ve always been that person: If it gets into my head, I’ve got to do it until I get it perfect – a perfectionist‘s attitude.
I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl – rather shy, but I didn’t show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn’t have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my – conscience.
Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It’s such a strange world.
In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.
All women have appealing features. I do not refer to model-type appeal, but rather that which comes from your personality, your attitude, and your expressions. I urge you to enhance the natural, God-given, feminine gifts with which you have been so richly blessed.
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
I didn’t know how to show my self love, and I didn’t want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, ‘I’m not having it.’
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.
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.
Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.
Before I knew it, I was singing, ‘I’m so tired of being alone,’ and that’s Al right there. From then, my attitude was, ‘Let Otis be Otis and James be James. I’m not going to emulate them anymore.’
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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.
There is no attitude required. The hat brings the attitude. And when people try on a hat they like, it is a bit of fun. It makes them laugh. You don’t laugh when you put on a pair of shoes, but you do with a hat.
Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It’s a state of mind.
I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.
Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.
A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it’s not a real issue – that it’s ‘only’ online – or that it’s limited to someone saying they don’t like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say ‘online harassment.’
You can call it what you want: bad attitude, immature. You can say, ‘He’s a thug.’ But I’m a competitor.
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.
Control what you can control. I can control my emotions, my attitude, my effort every day.
I don’t go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people’s approval.
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style – as did The Beatles and the Stones – and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics – that was the ’60s.
It seems that other parts of the world ought to be concerned about what we think of them instead of what they think of us. After all, we’re feeding most of them, and whenever they start rejecting 25 cents of each dollar of foreign aid money that we send to them, then I’ll be concerned about their attitude toward us.
I love Jonathan Richman – I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, ‘Don’t worry, everybody, just get into it. I’m just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.’
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.
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.
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
It’s great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things.
It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.
I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are because if they keep moving forward, and keep a positive attitude, then things will get better.
I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.
I expect if people have had a problem with me or my attitude, then they come and take it directly with me, face to face.
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.
As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren’t in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
I was bringing my attitude as a regular person ’cause this is my attitude.
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.
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
There’s times where I go off the rails like anybody else. For the most part, I try to keep it, ‘Hey, this is what we’re dealt and this is the situation, so let’s make the best of it.’ Keep a positive attitude.
For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.
Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.
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.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.
As far as I am concerned the best thing that any person can have, and which I think my son has, is commitment to work and also the attitude towards it.
It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
I love the body language of the women cricketers and the attitude with which they carry themselves.
I am not an ambitious guy, I have a very laidback attitude; money for me is less important than self-respect and ideals.
Cock your hat – angles are attitudes.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
Pink isn’t just a color, it’s an attitude!
You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.
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.
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable – today’s newspaper is tomorrow‘s fish wrap.
And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don’t play that… My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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.
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.
My confidence never gets crushed. Whatever happens, my attitude doesn’t change.
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me – especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
When you ain’t got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find ’em, kill ’em.
With his incredible attitude, with his incredible winning mentality, Cristiano Ronaldo is a unique player.
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.
Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
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.
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.
People have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn’t break that perception.
All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.
I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn’t about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.
I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.
Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me – especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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.
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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.
For Parisian women, it’s not about looks; it’s not about style – for me, it’s more about this beautiful city, culture, and lifestyle. It’s more about attitude – style it your own way.
I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don’t know if that’s just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it’s a different kind of attitude.
When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that ‘just say it’ attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it’s all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.
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.
Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
No matter what job you have, you’re in control of your attitude. That, to me, is my biggest focus every day – being on the energy bus.
I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can’t. My attitude is always ‘let it keep rolling.’
I have had the view that cutting wages is not the path to prosperity, and one of the great myths propagated about my attitude to industrial relations is that I believe in lower wages. I’ve never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I’ve never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.
There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government’s attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.
Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my – conscience.
One day I looked in the mirror, and I wasn’t happy. If you’re not feeling good mentally, emotionally and physically, you’re just a mess – and that’s the point I felt like. It was a change in attitude and a shift in lifestyle. There’s no crazy diet; I train six days a week, and I eat really well.
Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude.
Craig Sager’s amazing attitude was truly inspirational. He was a champion during his battle, fighting every day with grace and humor.
On ‘Van Halen,’ I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I’d say that at the time of ‘Fair Warning,’ I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people’s minds I’m just a gunslinger.
I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
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.
Let’s stop telling people from modest backgrounds that their education is capped at a certain level because of where they grew up. In fact I can attest to the fact that all this attitude does is put people off wanting to test the waters and apply, or push themselves towards higher education at all.
Being sexy, to me, is possessing the full package: the brains, the drive, inner confidence, spiritual foundation, a positive attitude, proceeding through obstacles, making a positive contribution to the world, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother’s poor mental health.
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer.
What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what’s good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, ‘We’ll build it and you buy it. We’ll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.’
Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don’t have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can’t write songs, no problem – simply steal one and change it to your taste.
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: ‘whatever makes you happy.’
It’s better for me to play with guys because Rock ‘n’ Roll has such an aggressive attitude.
Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.
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.
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.
It’s not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort… to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.
Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.
A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.
I don’t reflect much, unless I’m talking to the media. I have more of a ‘Forward, march!’ kind of attitude.
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?
Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.
Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
You want the players in the locker room to know you as that kid that fights ’til the end, has that never-say-die attitude.
My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child’s attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.
My attitude is good because I’m a fierce competitor and I have all the confidence in the world that I can beat everybody else. That’s my attitude.
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they’re made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
Even if people do wrong, we’re social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are ‘bad’ or ‘evil‘ is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn’t help anyone.
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It’s emotional, theatrical and technical. It’s everything.
I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.
I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
There’s always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government’s attitude to women.
I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It’s an attitude of hunters; they’re observing the prey.
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.
A positive atmosphere nurtures a positive attitude, which is required to take positive action.
I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, ‘Look, that sort of attitude isn’t good enough.’ It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.
It’s important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it’s a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.
I need a combination of attitude, sensuality, and vulnerability. I need a new kind of heroine. After Bipasha Basu and Sunny Leone, India now needs an even more unique fantasy figure.
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
I think clothes are very much a representation of your attitude and the way you feel. I really love to be dressed down, though.
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.
I think leather pants are just better than jeans onstage; they give the performance a nice attitude, and they are also shockingly comfortable. Comfort is key.
I think it’s your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that’s a waste of a lovely life. ‘Oh… I’m 30, oh, I’m 40, oh, 50.’ Make the most of it.
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don’t think I have the right aptitude for it. I think it is unfair to push somebody in that direction just because my father happens to be a politician.
The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer.
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.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
If you’re going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won’t play good anyways.
Conor McGregor has that fight anybody, anywhere attitude but doesn’t just have the attitude, he lives it.
Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.
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.
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.
You can’t win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn’t win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It’s just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
There was that ‘anything is achievable’ attitude in the Eighties. Everything was very positive and gung-ho. Well, ‘hedonistic‘ is the word they use a lot. We were all confident bordering on arrogant.
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain’s place is in Europe.
To me, beauty is confidence. I think beauty comes from one’s confident inner self and attitude. Make-up and styling are the cherries on top of your beautiful inner-self!
No, we don’t control who our parents are. We don’t control what color we are. We don’t control what home we are born into. But we control our attitude. We control our work ethic. We control our drive and our commitment.
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people’s, then that must feel pretty good.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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.
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.
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
The attitude of, ‘I will never self-publish,’ coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.
Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude.
My agent says that I’m a ‘repeat business guy.’ If you hire me to come do a movie, I’ll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I’m here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.
You want the players in the locker room to know you as that kid that fights ’til the end, has that never-say-die attitude.
You’ve got to have the same attitude each day. You’ve got to show up to work.
Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
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.
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.
Psychographics speaks more to an attitude, a lifestyle.
Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.
I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my – conscience.
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.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
On ‘Van Halen,’ I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I’d say that at the time of ‘Fair Warning,’ I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people’s minds I’m just a gunslinger.
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
I thought one should have the attitude of ‘What do you care what other people think!’
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
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.
Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don’t have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can’t write songs, no problem – simply steal one and change it to your taste.
You can’t beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
I have a political attitude, but I’m certainly not a politician.
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.
It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
My attitude as a footballer was to always be prepared – make sure you’re the fittest and know who you’re up against. And that’s exactly how I treat the media side.
Beauty for me is the attitude behind something. But my ideals of beauty are rather different.
Director Jai Krishna is an optimist who has a never-say-die attitude. He has impressed me thoroughly with his faith in the industry. Not many are aware of the fact that this man had to wait for almost 30 years in this industry to direct ‘Vanmam,’ his first film.
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.
I’ve spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very constructive in their approach – those who enforce the laws and who actually want to help you comply – and there are others who have a prosecutorial attitude.
My attitude is one movie at a time. I don’t want to get ahead of myself.
I’ve been fired five times for having a bad attitude.
With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.
The woman who rules her roost is one of two things: she’s illogical, therefore spoiling her children, or she’s an iron-fisted disciplinarian, adopting the attitude that rightfully belongs to the man and losing the precious softness that is her birthright.
I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
I love a woman with a relaxed attitude.
I’m definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.
But having said that, there’s also a sea change in attitude towards media.
A good attitude is really important. And a sense of optimism, someone who has ideas and isn’t afraid to pitch them no matter what level she is. Someone who is proactive. Someone with efficiency and common sense. They don’t always go hand-in-hand, common sense and, well, everything else.
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.
Even as a little child, I’ve always had that comedian kind of attitude.
Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.
More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.
My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
I don’t have a very positive attitude towards rappers.
Beauty for me is the attitude behind something. But my ideals of beauty are rather different.
The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‘Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,’ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.
Age and size are only numbers. It’s the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
Just because I don’t smile a lot, people think, ‘Ah, yeah. He must have a bad attitude.’ But if you don’t know me, you don’t know me. That was the problem. My face is just serious!
The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
Bader’s philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.
Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that’s a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go away.
I think Messi’s is a fantastic attitude and should be the mentality that all top players in the world should adopt.
Part of the new morality of the ’60s and ’70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
If you look at the brands that I like, there are brands I like because of the clothes; then, there are brands I like because of their attitude and mentality.
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
For me, it was important Wonder Woman wouldn’t be a Goody Two-Shoes. She has a little bit of attitude, and when she fights, she has a smirk on her face. I didn’t want her to be polished. I want people to relate to her.
Attitudes are more important than facts.
Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you’re not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don’t think that is particularly healthy.
I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I’m worried that it’s going to end; if things are bad, then I’m worried that it’s going to be permanent. It’s not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.
Bad attitudes will ruin your team.
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.
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.
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.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn’t change.
Throughout life, a positive attitude is important because without it one has a more difficult time achieving any measure of success, whether it be in school, athletics or the working world.
I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.
My dad’s always had an unbelievable, positive attitude about everything.
When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.
I was told that with the right attitude, and with enough hard work, if you get up after every time you fail, you can amount to something and you can do positive work. You can leave a positive mark for our world, and that’s what I aim to do.
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
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.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
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.
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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.
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.
I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.
I have an attitude. It’s what I do. I’m edgy. I have an attitude.
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that ‘just say it’ attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it’s all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you’re going to make this the best deal for all parties.
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.
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.
Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.
I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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.
As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude.
I always think we have to be cautious with our attitude to refereeing the professionals and the people in the football family.
Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
Many big and small things happen in our lives, almost on daily basis, and I hope that everyone would not lose the trust that they have in themselves, and never lose positive attitude.
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.
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.
I don’t have a very positive attitude towards rappers.
Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
I still have a young attitude.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly – poetry, literature – this speculative attitude toward life.
I still have a young attitude.
There was a lot of passion with Klopp, I felt that most in the dressing room before games. He always had a big smile. He hugged every player. I loved his attitude – he was never nervous. He gave us confidence.
Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama‘s new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.
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.
When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, ‘My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.’
You can’t study comedy; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude.
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.
I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude.
When you’re walking at the airport, you’re expected to smile at people because they know you… I find that tough. I’m only trying to protect myself. So I don’t take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it’s actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it’s a defense mechanism.
I don’t like it when people say, ‘You’re 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.’ For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
You know what’s funny to me? Attitude.
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‘There’s nothing good in my future’ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.
Throughout life, a positive attitude is important because without it one has a more difficult time achieving any measure of success, whether it be in school, athletics or the working world.
I’m allergic to attitude.
You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
Today’s youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn’t take that attitude forward with them.
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.
I perfectly understood President Obama‘s attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It’s the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
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.
I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I’d like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.
What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.
On the ‘X-Files‘ our attitude always was respect the audience.
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.
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
I think it’s my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in ‘Black Mask‘ magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.
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.
We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.
As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to ‘kick it’ and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
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.
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.
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.
Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.
I’m not changing because I’m part of a hit. People around me have changed in their attitude toward me, but I haven’t changed. And I won’t.
Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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.
I love when someone is honest with me and tells me right in my face what they are thinking about my game or my attitude or whatever.
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
Creativity is not talent but attitude.
I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.
I have my own stubborn attitude about how I want to play and where I want to go.
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.
My attitude is, do as much as I can while I’m free. And if I’m arrested I’ll still do as much as I can.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
I believe I have the attitude of a champion and a winner, and I’m not apologetic for it.
It was my father who instilled the ‘never say no’ attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.
The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about.
I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.
I’m not anti-fashion, but I’ve always had a bit of a punk attitude. That’s important, I think. I do my own thing.
India’s educated youth is skill-deficient, risk averse in attitude, and largely unemployable in the cutting-edge manufacturing sector.
For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.
Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan‘s messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.
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.
Every child’s taste is different. Don’t worry if they’re not reading ‘War and Peace’ at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.
Now I’m strong: I can run fast, I can lift weights, and that in itself is quite empowering, to have that physical strength. It changes my whole mental attitude.
There was that ‘anything is achievable’ attitude in the Eighties. Everything was very positive and gung-ho. Well, ‘hedonistic‘ is the word they use a lot. We were all confident bordering on arrogant.
I am more interested in people’s attitude than someone who is a perfect face. Every time I walk the streets of London, I see someone who interests me. It doesn’t matter how old they are.
I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude.
I’ve always been the girl with a go-getter attitude.
We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth.
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.
Just as the left has to be more willing to question ‘Government knows best,’ the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
Positive energy and attitude is sexy to me.
Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we’ve forgotten about our inner power.
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.
I’m taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.
There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That’s what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that’s a big part of what does make it work.
What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.
You don’t have to have an attitude if you’re famous.
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.
Always have an attitude of gratitude.
