Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herb Kelleher

You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

Henry David Thoreau

If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

Jean de La Fontaine

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Graham Chapman

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

Gerald Chertavian

The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

Harriet Lerner

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

Hooman Majd

Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in the mainstream media. With succinct and elegant prose, and with no axe to grind, he exposes the hypocrisy of Western attitudes toward Iran.

Holly Near

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Hope Solo

I have an attitude. It's what I do. I'm edgy. I have an attitude.

Honor Blackman

Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get involved. Yet, by publicly speaking out against domestic violence, together we can challenge attitudes towards violence in the home and show that domestic violence is a crime and not merely unacceptable.

Holly Lisle

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Huey Newton

I would like to say that racial attitude and prejudice are probably here...It is very difficult to act this out - discrimination - discrimination is an act. After you have the prejudices, the disciminations come out, if there is an institution for it but the Cubans have attempted to create institutions free of discrimination.

Howard Zinn

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.

Guy Finley

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

Giancarlo Esposito

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

Harold Pinter

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

James Cromwell

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

Jakob Nielsen

The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.

Jacques Derrida

The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.

Jack White

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

Jennie Finch

You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.

Jessica Savitch

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

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

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.

He always comes in with a 'Take over, I can do it' attitude.

He brings the attitude that we need a leader. The way he plays, the way he talks, you can tell he has a lot of passion for this game.