Attitude Quotes

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

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.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.