Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shigeru Miyamoto

Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself [with more advanced games].

Shane Warne

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Natalie Massenet

Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.

Natalie Goldberg

When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."

Tatyana Tolstaya

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

Tavis Smiley

What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.

Tara Brach

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

Tony Robbins

What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.

Tony Robbins

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.

Toni Servillo

Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

Tony Blair

Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

Tom Petty

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Simone Elkeles

When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]

Simone de Beauvoir

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Simone de Beauvoir

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

Simon Raven

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Thomas Merton

Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken.

Thomas Merton

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

Thomas Merton

The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.

Thomas Carlyle

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Thomas Carlyle

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Tony Clark

To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took for granted suddenly disappear, we have a very simple choice. We can either succumb to despair and assume the attitude of the put upon victim, powerless to change our fate, or we can decide to turn the tragedy into an opportunity.

Tony Evans

If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.

Tony Dungy

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

Tony Dungy

Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better

Tommy Lee

I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus.

Tom Wolfe

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Tom Wolfe

His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways...while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.

Tom Waits

Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.

Tom Segev

That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.

Steven Spielberg

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

Steven Biko

Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it.

Steven Biko

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.