Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilhelm Ostwald

My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results in a treatise [Die Lehre von der Energie] exhibiting great independence of thought. But we were separated by his aversion to a realistic conception of energy. Consequently, each of us considered the other only a half ally, toward whom an attitude of caution was necessary.

Wilhelm Wundt

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

Wilhelm Reich

Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.

Walter Dean Myers

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

Walter Isaacson

He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)

William Julius Wilson

If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

Yogi Berra

Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.

Winston Churchill

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

Winston Churchill

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

Rhonda Byrne

You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.

Rhonda Byrne

You have to talk about what you love, to bring what you love to you.

Rick Warren

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

Rick Warren

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

Rick Warren

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

Rick Warren

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

Rick Warren

Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.

Rick Warren

There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.

Rick Warren

In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.

Treat Williams

Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

Steve Vai

Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

Vince Lombardi

Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.

Robert G. Allen

The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Robert Green Ingersoll

This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow; third, enjoy today.

Richard Wiseman

Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

Rudy Giuliani

I listen a little to the Democrats, and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense," Giuliani continued. "We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-September 11 attitude of defense.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.

Samuel Johnson

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Samuel Johnson

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Sam Walton

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

Sam Altman

You also want people who are maniacally determined and that is slightly different than having a risk tolerant attitude.

Sam Altman

For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.

Ruth Gordon

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

Rufus Sewell

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.