Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Whewell

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

William James

General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.

Sara Blakely

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

William Faulkner

How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

Richard Fleeshman

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

Ritchie Blackmore

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

Richard Dawkins

There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.

Robert Urich

Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude.

Roger Babson

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.

William Howard Taft

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.

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.

Zig Ziglar

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

Zig Ziglar

To respond is positive, to react is negative.

Our biggest thing is, as a team, we have to regroup in regards to our attitude and how we're going to play. I thought defensively we did not punish people in our own end. You can't play hockey in your own end without punishing people.

Pitching is our biggest improvement from last year. But, the team's attitude is a lot better, too. The team chemistry has improved, and that shows in everything we've done so far this year.

Steve Williams

If you row 3,000 strokes a day for 15 years you end up on autopilot. But when you're learning a new sport, you're part of a learning culture, your brain and body are more open to change. We can take that attitude back with us into the rowing.

Mike James

I guess we have the attitude that we're in unfamiliar territory and we have no one but ourselves, so we stick together.

Mick Taylor

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique

Joseph B. Wirthlin

No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities... Each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

If a person is cold and rigid, he feels within himself as if he were in a grave. He is not living, he cannot enjoy this life for he cannot express himself and he cannot see the light and life outside. What keeps man from developing the heart quality? His exacting attitude. He wants to make a business of love. He says, 'If you will love me, I will love you.' As soon as a man measures and weighs his favors and his services and all that he does for one whom he loves, he ceases to know what love is. Love sees the beloved and nothing else.

Henepola Gunaratana

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

John C. Maxwell

Our attitude determines our approach to life.

John C. Maxwell

Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.

John C. Maxwell

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

James Joyce

He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.

Johnny Carson

I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

The manner in which you treat people and circumstances in your life, reflects on how you handle your life and your environment. Bear in mind that your destiny is carved out of that.

Mark Twain

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds

The kids' attitude is awesome. I like this group. I think they have some aspirations to do some great things.

The key question here is as to whether this is an intensification with the explicit objective of resuming hostilities or whether it is an intensification to probe the attitude and disposition of the new government.

Their attitude is they don't want the team to get really good after they graduate. They want it to be good now and later on.

The underlying attitude towards metals in general and gold in particular is still positive. The bias still has to be to the upside, but people are reminded that this isn't a one-way street.