Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rufus Wainwright

If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.

Rowan Williams

Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die.

William Hazlitt

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

William Eggleston

The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who were critics just didn't understand the works at all. I was sorry about that, but it didn't weigh on my mind a bit.

Wendell Berry

But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of the future condition of our kind we must look, not to the wealth or the genius of the coming generations, but to the quality of the disciplines and attitudes that we are preparing now for their use.

Walter Pater

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

Yoko Ono

What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"

Wynton Marsalis

Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are.

Wynton Marsalis

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

William Osler

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

William Osler

At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

William O. Douglas

Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

Yao Ming

There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'

Zig Ziglar

You never judge a day by the weather!

Zig Ziglar

If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Zig Ziglar

The way you see things - your attitude - is the most important factor in your success.

Zig Ziglar

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

Zig Ziglar

I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.

Zig Ziglar

If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker.

Zig Ziglar

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Zig Ziglar

Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.

Zig Ziglar

Attitude and not the Aptitude decide the Altitude you reach in life.

Zig Ziglar

The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.

Zig Ziglar

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

Zig Ziglar

By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.

Zig Ziglar

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

Zig Ziglar

To respond is positive, to react is negative.

Zig Ziglar

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

Zig Ziglar

Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.

Al Groh

Our attitude with tight ends here is the more the merrier. I don't know if we'll get to four tight ends, but we certainly wouldn't be averse to having three in there.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be ''to be satiable in learning'' and towards others ''to be tireless in teaching.''

John N. Mitchell

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

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