Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Hill

Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

Joan Lunden

Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.

Jo Ann Emerson

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

Garrett Hardin

People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

Frank Chodorov

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

Geddy Lee

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

Gary Cooper

Please make sure everyone knows how much their messages mean to me. They have added greatly to my peace of mind. I only wish some of the writers would take a more positive approach to the menace of cancer. I've got it, sure; but I'm not afraid to use the word. Some of them act like it's a dirty word. That's the wrong attitude. We should all bring it out in the open, recognize that it exists, and fight it! Cancer is everybody's enemy. We can't 'think' an enemy out of existence by ignoring it.

Gary Cooper

This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.

And if you talk to our three best players, they all think we have a good team,' ... If you talk to Jason, his attitude is as positive as I've heard since then. When your better players think you have a good team, that's a very positive thing.'

Edward de Bono

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Edie Sedgwick

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

Accept the present moment without judgement.

Hermann Maier

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.

Hermann Maier

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.

Hermann Weyl

It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.

Jose Saramago

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

Jordin Sparks

That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.

Kenneth Clark

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Kurt Busiek

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

Kurt Cobain

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

Kgalema Motlanthe

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

Khalil Gibran

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Khalil Gibran

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Kesha

I would love to embody the attitude of Iggy Pop or Keith Richards: a ballsy mentality. Stylistically, I love Vivienne Westwood - those capes! I'm obsessed.

Kenneth More

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

Naomi Wolf

I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.

Napoleon Hill

Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

Napoleon Hill

A negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.

Napoleon Hill

A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.

Napoleon Hill

The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.

Napoleon Hill

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.