Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the midst of a very nice business expansion, there is a kind of pall in the attitudes of Americans about how this administration is performing.

Greg Smith

Interviewing and resumes are becoming less reliable. Job skills are important, but behavior, attitudes and personality play a larger role in creating a productive work environment. These traits can easily be measured by assessments. If you hire a person with negative personality traits, then that person drives off good people and lowers productivity.

Steve Williams

If you row 3,000 strokes a day for 15 years you end up on autopilot. But when you're learning a new sport, you're part of a learning culture, your brain and body are more open to change. We can take that attitude back with us into the rowing.

I guess we just have one of those attitudes where we know we're going into an unfamiliar territory and we have no one but us and we have to stick together.

Mike James

I guess we have the attitude that we're in unfamiliar territory and we have no one but ourselves, so we stick together.

Byron Nelson

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

James Dobson

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

Erin Morgenstern

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

Carly Simon

You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.

We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.

Kevin Jorgeson

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

Koo Stark

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

Evan Parker

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.

Evangeline Lilly

It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jenny Holzer

A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.

Fred Rogers

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

Frank Herbert

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan

Frank Herbert

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

George Hamilton

While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.

George H. W. Bush

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

H. Rap Brown

You cannot legislate an attitude.

Greg Norman

Aptitude starts with attitude.

Jim Brown

There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.

Jayne Ann Krentz

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.

Mindy McCready

We all make mistakes. We're human. Hopefully, everyone -- like I am -- will have that attitude. I'm not upset.

Kurt Russell

The legs feed the wolf.

Kirk Franklin

Most people have desires that are great and they want to do great things, and they don't want to be negative people or they don't want to live in pessimistic attitudes, but the problem is a lot of them were not given the right tools. They were not given the right blueprint of how to build a building.

Kathleen Hanna

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

Karl Marx

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

Julia Child

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

Julia Cameron

Balance is the key to my serenity. I attain balance by listening to my inner wisdom and to the wisdom of others. There is no situation in which I cannot find a point of balance. There is no circumstance in which I cannot find inner harmony. As I ask to be led into equilibrium and clarity, I will find that my answers come to me. I am wiser than I know, more capable of right action and attitudes than I yet believe. In every event, I seek the balance point of God's action through me.