Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter MacKay

We know that there is an undeniable and unstoppable sentiment for change in the country. A change towards a new, clean, constructive attitude that will exist within a Conservative government.

Renzo Piano

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

Richard Dean Anderson

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.

Sade Adu

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.

Marlee Matlin

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

Martha Beck

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.

We'll never change the attitude of the 48-year-old coach on the soccer field. 'Oh, it's over there, it's not going to bother us.' We'll never change him. But I can educate his 8-year-old daughter. She's going to come up to him and say, 'Daddy, let's go.' And he's going to leave.

E. F. Schumacher

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

Turnovers and penalties are some of the things we have to cut back on. There's no question about that. But the right attitude is there and we're making progress.

We don't have the numbers of the boys team, but the girls have a good attitude and are a good, spirited group. That should bode well and we should have enough to run most of our relays.

James Ellis

We don't have a superstar on the team and I like that. We might have three or four guys score in double figures on any given night because our kids don't have any problem sharing the ball. The overall attitude of this team is great and that has carried us.

William Shakespeare

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

People are going to be focusing on Jim Nussle's record in Congress and whether his record on budget deficits, tax cuts and Medicare cuts and Medicaid reflect Iowa's attitudes and positions on those issues. That's really what's going to decide this election, not the lieutenant governor.

People are realizing that traditional mainstream media has had its opinion, tone and attitude eradicated excessively. It's taken this long for the networks to learn from Fox's success.

Penalties and turnovers hurt us and we're at the point where we have to get better or start to slide a bit. Our kids have a positive attitude and will use it to go on into the right direction.

Our kids have been playing pretty good basketball. They have practiced well and their attitude has been great. It seems to be every day in practice they are hungry to get better.

Our guys had a great attitude every day they showed up. That's a lesson in life. Who's kidding who - I think we were 1-18 and something at one point. Who the heck is having fun in that season? But they showed up every day, they put a positive spin on everything, and they worked. And I could say with complete honesty, I don't think there was a game the second half of the season that there wasn't a supreme effort.

Dave Clark

Our kids are playing with confidence and coming together at the right time. We just hope that attitude continues on.

Our guys were a little bitter after Friday's loss, so we did come out hungry. That's the type of attitude we need to have on the court. I'm real proud that all 15 kids went out there. It was a total team effort.

That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn't going to settle for that, and my mother warned us not to settle for less, to make the most of our lives.

That attitude expressed by Ford's supporters is exactly the rationale that led us to support the strongest candidate.

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

Sathya Baba

Living is not enough; it has no value by itself. It is the motives, the feelings, the thoughts, the attitudes that prompt the day to day life that matters.

Long-term is a relative term; that's what I've learned. You never know how a team's attitude about a player is going to change.

Ed Nelson

Marcus is such a good player and he contributes a lot. He's had the attitude in practice that he's going to help us. He's been real good. He's had an upbeat attitude. I think all of us as a team are looking forward to him coming back. He knows what's coming (on the road). Marcus is the type that he'll use that to his advantage. He just has to block that out and play his game.

Alice James

Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

Albert J. Nock

It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.

Albert Ellis

Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

Albert Ellis

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

Albert Camus

In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Albert Camus

Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.

Clayton Christensen

We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others... Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.

Clayton Christensen

And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. ... When we see people acting in an abusive, arrogant, or demeaning manner toward others, their behavior almost always is a symptom of their lack of self-esteem. They need to put someone else down to feel good about themselves.