Famous Quotes & Sayings

My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.

James Mercer

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

Maybe the kids were a bit overwhelmed last year. I think they have a little bit more of a businesslike attitude as we come into this week and knowing that our job is not done just making it down here. We're looking forward to playing on Saturday also.

Now we have a big target on our backs, so every body will be after us. Nothing's really different for us; we have the same attitude we've had all year.

Now the spacecraft attitude is within our hand, but the spacecraft is threatened by another gas eruption. That is why we have to perform the baking operation to exclude those gases from the spacecraft. The xenon gas left is sufficient for the return cruise to the Earth.

Now, the attitude is you have to do what's good for this city and not just what's good for my business or deal.

Now that we're in it, of course, we're not going to take the attitude that we're just happy to be there.

No, ... You've got to have that attitude that no one can catch you.

Chris Evert

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Doug Liman

A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.

Octavio Paz

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

Charles R. Swindoll

The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.

Dick Van Dyke

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

Dennis Wilson

Because of the attitude of a few mental dinosaurs intent on exploiting our initial success, Brian's huge talent has never been fully appreciated in America and the potential of the group has been stifled.... If the Beatles had suffered this kind of misrepresentation, they would have never got past singing 'Please Please Me' and 'I WannaHold Your Hand' and leaping around in Beatle suits.

Dennis Prager

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

Dennis Eckersley

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

Dee Dee Myers

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

Dean Kamen

Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.

Elbert Hubbard

In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.

Elbert Hubbard

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Eileen Caddy

Let my Peace which passes all understanding infill and enfold you, for when you are at Peace within, you reflect Peace without, and all those souls you meet will feel that Peace.

Eileen Caddy

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

Eileen Caddy

Concentrate on the wonders and joys of this life, and accept the very best which is your true heritage. It is not being an ostrich, afraid of life and not facing it. It is seeing the reality of this glorious life which is yours, and in doing so, helping to bring it about. The more clearly you can see it, the more quickly will it come about.

Tony Stewart

I feel like we've really taken our program to another level. It's not been because of me, it's been because of the two young guys coming in. Their attitude has kind of spread through the shop.

Billy Cox

great. We went and played with the attitude of, 'Look at all those people, everybody's doing something different.' It's like watching television; we'll go with the vibe. So the energy from them came to us, and we threw it right back at them.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Given the attitude of the French and the Germans, I don't think there's anything we can do that will convince them, because I don't think they want to be convinced.

Steve Howey

Getting into shape helped get me into a better mood, and when I'm in a better mood, I'm funnier. My general attitude is better.

Karen Traviss

G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.

For women to become equal they not only have to change the laws but also change attitudes and culture, because our culture is still incredibly patriarchal,

From his unapologetic attitude to his secret, backroom dealings, Dick Cheney doesn't realize that Americans expect responsible and effective government that puts the interests of the people first.

Funds with a short-term strategy are moving around. But the lack of visibility in the outlook for Japan's structural reforms and uncertainty over the U.S. economy, U.S. stocks and the attitude of investors there mean longer-term funds sit tight.

Dalai Lama

If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the presence of great agitation.