Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Johnson

Our main goal is to steadily improve throughout the season. The girls positive attitudes are their biggest assets. They all work very hard and have a strong desire to improve, which is going to be essential to their success.

Maurice Cheeks

Somehow we've got to turn it. We've got to turn it immediately for us to get back in this thing. We're still there, but we've got to turn it immediately. We've got to turn attitudes and turn to believe in yourself as well as your team. We've got to turn it around and make guys understand the importance of it, number one, the urgency of it, number two, and leave it out on the floor.

Our program offers young children in the church and the community a loving and educational Christian environment where they cannot only develop a strong educational foundation but also build Christian principles, attitudes and character traits.

Jeremy Northam

Our attitudes have changed a lot, really, and so there's a certain toughness about it.

Our attitudes are not what they need to be to get us where we need to go.

I think they wanted to be the poster children for the politically correct attitudes in the city and they misrepresented the contents of the tapes.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

The 50 percent of U.S. households with computers--a number that is growing rapidly--is large enough to examine changes in behavior and attitudes that are already occurring.

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

I believe we've defined eligibility for that program based on outdated attitudes about what people with significant disabilities are capable of doing in the workplace.

Queen Latifah

I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.

I firmly believes years of strong leadership and progress attitudes laid the foundation for success.

I find that more and more. It is not just the people you would expect to be slightly neanderthal in their attitudes - creationists, flat-earthers, as it were - but actually people who think of themselves as radicals, progressives. That is part of the problem I've found with postmodernism.

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,

Joe Ries has always said that no matter how great of a job we do in the classroom and in the car, we are still faced with the fact that young drivers make a lot of choices due to attitudes, and attitudes are formed from day one with their family. That's really where a lot of difficulties arise.

Because of the wide variety of cultural attitudes worldwide and the consumer concern for privacy, there's going to be a very large demand for products that can help you do this. It's clearly shaping up to be an important market, two or three years out.

I have a lot of trust in this team that it's going to do really well. There's strong chemistry, everyone has positive attitudes and I definitely think we can make it all the way to the end.

I felt bad that they were forced into that situation all year. They had so much put on their shoulders and the team has been fantastic about it. They practiced hard every day and the attitudes were terrific. They did everything they could do.

I think the big story of Christmas will be this shift in consumer attitudes where people felt that stores gouged them with their pricing strategy. The 30 to 40 percent discounts this year instead of the 50 to 70 percent off last year will help profits but will hurt customer loyalty in the long term.

Wayne Williams

If a lot of the same people are there and have the same attitudes and habits, it may regress. Once this intense FAA scrutiny passes it may go back to its old habits.

James S. Coleman

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

Gregg Troy

I was really proud of the way they swam this evening. We had a very average morning and it hurt us a little in the team scores. The ones that did get the chance to come back tonight did much better, had better attitudes and just raced better than this morning.

If we learned about people's habits, attitudes and behaviors in completely different categories, we felt that, in theory, we could start to predict how people would behave in our own categories.

Bob Brown

The purpose of the chair is to help to close the gap between the knowledge of wildlife science and the implementation of wildlife policy. Dr. Peterson's professional experience with environmental conflict resolution on such topics as energy, air quality, water quality and use, land use, cultural attitudes about natural resources and wildlife habitat conservation on private lands make her a first-rate choice for this new position.

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.

One of the things I try to do is examine how attitudes regarding that conflict have evolved over time, ... Because it says a lot about how Americans treat those issues that were a part of that even today.

Seniors is what the Legion does and we suspect that there is a market. Times have changed and there is a lot of competition for the drinking dollar and attitudes towards drinking has changed, and a lot of the old Veterans have died.

Robert Teeter

While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

Luxury consumers' attitudes about the economy and their personal financial status have sea-sawed over the last six months, but ended 2005 with a strong upward trend. Significantly more luxury consumers feel their personal financial situation is better now than three months ago and that the country overall is better off. But while they feel better, the residual effects of the ups-and-downs they experienced in the recent past makes them a little tighter when it comes to luxury spending. In other words, they are more likely to take any windfalls to the bank, rather than to the store.

To be sure, real differences of opinion existed between the groups. Compared to pro-life participants, pro-choice participants had more favorable personal attitudes toward the pro-choice issues and less favorable attitudes toward the pro-life issues, and vice versa.

David Byrne

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Jane Green

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

Asia Argento

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.