Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Klausner

I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I the token woman on this list? Because I'll take it.'

I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has exactly that attitude.

Christopher Hitchens

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Ernest Holmes

A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.

Henry Louis Gates

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Jeff Bridges

Kevin Bacon and I recently worked on a move together, R.I.P.D. Just before we'd begin a scene, when all of us would feel the normal anxiety that actors feel be- fore they start to perform, Kevin would look at me and the other actors with a very serious expression on his face and say: "Remember, everything depends on this!" It would make us all laugh. On the one hand, it's not true of course, but on the other, everything does depend on this, on just this moment and our attitude toward this moment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

Lyle Overbay

He's starting to get that fire out there and get that competitive attitude a little bit. It looks like he's getting a little fire under him, and that's going to help him more than anything.

Mentally, we could have fallen apart, but this team doesn't do that. We could have had the attitude that we're snake-bit, but we didn't.

Gwen Stefani

Suddenly the song had this attitude, ... It was like, kind of, 'Oh! Where did the attitude come from?'

Scott Brown

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

Carl Rogers

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

Carl Rogers

The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust...

Antoni Tapies

It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.

Anthony Storr

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

I think his work ethic and overall attitude are one of the best I have ever been around. He's just one of those good, all around kids. He shows up at the meets and becomes part of our team and encourages everyone. He's all business and the real deal.

Sasha Azevedo

Wisdom has the power to enrich our lives. It can change our hearts, our perspective, and our attitude toward things, toward life, and toward others.

Maya Angelou

When it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine any more, there's a rainbow in the clouds,

We dream a lot. Our players get to hear that word a lot because I want to make sure they keep their attitude in the right frame. We played like we had big dreams tonight.

Sam Mitchell

We're all hopeful that he can play and recover from this - for Alvin. He's worked hard, and he's a good basketball player and brings the type of attitude that you want to your team. I just this is one step in his comeback.

Fulton J. Sheen

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

Herb Kelleher

Hire for attitude, train for skill.

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.

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.

Isaac Asimov

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Jerry Bridges

Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.

He's got a great attitude about playing the game. He's very instinctive and very confident and enjoys playing the game. And you just like to have guys like that. He's willing to work to get better. That's a big thing.

I think that suing our fans is the wrong attitude to take.

I think so. Me, personally, I did, because you never want to be questioned by your owner. You never want your attitude questioned, your heart questioned, so I did. I took it a little personally, and I just wanted to play tough all night and get to the basket.

Bernie Williams

He has been one of our great players this season, ... Flashes of greatness and then doing things that are not as good. But I think his attitude is exemplary. He made a mistake. He didn't get down on himself. He got back up.

Woodrow Wilson

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.