Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beyonce Knowles

It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk.

Bernie Ecclestone

If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything.

Eddie Murphy

I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

Dean Cain

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

Dean Cain

My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

David Robinson

What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

David Riesman

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.

David Horowitz

Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and deprives its holders of the power to change their condition.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you have the attitude of a young person and you work like a young person and you keep your body in shape, and if you believe that you can do it, then you can actually make other people also believe that you can do it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

Bear Grylls

Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!

August Wilson

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

August Wilson

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

Audre Lorde

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Arnold J. Toynbee

It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together in to a single family.

Antony Sher

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

Derek Bok

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

We've always been huge fans of Maria and believe she has the skills, attitude and style that fits 'Access Hollywood' perfectly. She's current, a unique talent, someone that cuts through, and definitely stands out in a crowd. We could not be more pleased with Maria joining the most credible entertainment news magazine in the world.

Ray Allen

We started the first half tonight with that same muddy approach. We were lethargic and didn't have much enthusiasm. The attitude was there in the second half.

Laura Carmichael

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

Mathieu Kassovitz

When you talk about young kids living in the hood, everywhere in the world, American music, American dress, American attitude is really important.

When you talk about good attitude and working hard, start with him.

Mark Cuban

As far as businesses, I was always hustling. I had to pay for my own school. I got 20 bucks every week or 2 from my dad and that was it. So I had a "whatever it took" attitude.

Mark Cuban

Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

Madeleine Albright

We are very hip on the fact that America's always No. 1. On this we are not, in terms of the number of women in our legislative branches and obviously as head of state. We need to push on that. I hate to say this: It isn't all men's fault. I think some of it is our own attitude and approach. Some of it very healthy, that women want to make choices about their lives and how they want to spend their time, and what they value.

Until we make some changes, individually and as a team with our attitude and our working hard ... it's not like we don't have that at all, but something's not there. We've got a missing link somewhere.

Meg Rosoff

I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.

Neneh Cherry

I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.

Mordecai Richler

Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.

Michael Korda

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Sure there is a sexy attitude, and when they say, 'Give me a sexy look with your eyes,' you give it to them. It doesn't have to relate to the product. People are just drawn to it.

Lina Wertmuller

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.