Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Van Peebles

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.

I firmly believes years of strong leadership and progress attitudes laid the foundation for success.

Funds with a short-term strategy are moving around. But the lack of visibility in the outlook for Japan's structural reforms and uncertainty over the U.S. economy, U.S. stocks and the attitude of investors there mean longer-term funds sit tight.

Dalai Lama

If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the presence of great agitation.

Wayne Williams

If a lot of the same people are there and have the same attitudes and habits, it may regress. Once this intense FAA scrutiny passes it may go back to its old habits.

If a county touches the coast, it's going to be very different politically, and the differences are becoming more dramatic. Voters there have a very different attitude about a lot of things.

Mack Brown

I don't think we've ever had it this good. There hasn't been one negative word from any of them about why they're not getting more time. I do think that the depth and chemistry and attitude that has made them play so well.

Drew Brees

I don't think we're in a situation at all where anybody's overreacting here. I mean, obviously 2-3 is not where we thought we'd be at this point in the season, especially since I feel like we have a really good team and I feel like we're better than we were last year, ... But I think our attitude is and the way we look at it is, if we win this game we're sitting at 3-3, which is exactly where we were sitting at this time last year.

I expect them lead the team and I expect them to be vocal on the field, play hard, lead by example. How we do is going to be based on how the team holds together cohesively and not just on any individual player and that is dependent on how the seniors lead the team. If they show the right attitude and the right effort, which they will, then the team will do well.

Juliana Hatfield

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.

For us it is not to do with the U.N. capacity, it has to do with attitude toward the Zimbabwe government.

James S. Coleman

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

For much of the Rocky Mountain region, I believe people feel not only left out but disenfranchised. The general attitude with the current administration is that the West is of little consequence. We are treated like a Third World country.

Martin Rees

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.

What you expect to see here is the same thing from the first year. You are still going to see a hard-nosed team that plays to the last second of the game. That is the kind of attitude I try to project and I try to get 100 percent out of them.

What you don't see, for instance, is the data we collect from surveys -- who smokes, and what their attitudes are.

Ron Zook

He reminds me of Chris Leak, the guy we had at Florida. He's very athletic, very humble, and he's a leader. He was calling me and asking, 'How about this guy, how about this guy?' It's hard to get that team attitude today.

Having the right attitude goes further than grinding yourself into the ground another two hours after skating.

Eddie House

Guys are trying to be a little more focused, and maybe that has taken away from the carefree attitude we had during the season.

Ed Baker

Having no penalties for us, that was just huge. We were down late in the game and our kids were still flying around to the football trying to make anything happen. That effort and positive attitude is what is going to help us throughout our season.

Marcelo Balboa

Going into that stadium and getting a tie was phenomenal, ... That was the best we have played as a team being a man down. We knew we were doing a good job when we started knocking the ball around and the Mexican crowd was cheering 'Ole, Ole!!' That day, we left with the attitude that we were back in it again.

Going into it there were a lot of jitters. They weren't the type of nerves in that I wasn't confident, but I was nervous about having contact and being in the flow and making sure I picked up right after I left off, ... But after the first few tackles, I got a little more confident and got that attitude back.

He's always been low-key. I can hardly get a couple of words out of him, and I've known him for nine years. Nothing really gets him too high, nothing gets him too low. He has a great attitude for the game.

Ozzie Guillen

He's been trying to come back out with the same attitude and the same performance. He has come out and pitched two big games for us.

He's a tough kid. You have to want to beat the hell out of the kid; that's the attitude you need.

Dan Marino

He's a tough kid, ... You can tell he's got the winning attitude and you can tell he's a leader and he makes plays.

Gregg Williams

He's doing better. He's improving. I think he's got a real good team attitude and as he improves, he'll play more, ... But right now, we're playing as well as we can play with the people that we are playing with and the guys that have put the most time in. There could be a chance -- maybe it might spring out this week.

Geoff Petrie

He's here to work and give the best effort that he can give. You also get the sense he's not willing to concede anything, which is great for the attitude of our team and where we find ourselves at.

Kara went out with a great attitude and just performed like a national champion.

Joe Ries has always said that no matter how great of a job we do in the classroom and in the car, we are still faced with the fact that young drivers make a lot of choices due to attitudes, and attitudes are formed from day one with their family. That's really where a lot of difficulties arise.

I think it represented people who came back to reality after the farm crisis and looked at it realistically and bid accordingly. We're moving into that feverish attitude now.

Brad Wilkerson

I think it's getting a little ridiculous, to tell you the truth. We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it more than anything. ... I'm very surprised about the attitude and stuff that's happening. It seems like the willingness to go out there and give it all you've got to win is just not there.

Anthony Spencer

I think it's good to have him here because he has that intensity and attitude we need. We will all be much better because he is here.