Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Orwell

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:

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.

Fred Astaire

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

Vinny Testaverde

By the time we realized, 'Hey, we can still play,' we lost a few games. At the end of the year, if we win one more game, we're in the playoffs. Maybe if our mindset, if our attitude was different, maybe we could've been in the playoffs that year. Let's hope we learned a lesson from that.

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.

Jack Kent Cooke

This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.

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.

One of the things we talked about is not this attitude we're not just happy to be there. We're going there for business, and we're trying to win some games.

Gwen Stefani

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

Maurice Cheeks

Somehow we've got to turn it. We've got to turn it immediately for us to get back in this thing. We're still there, but we've got to turn it immediately. We've got to turn attitudes and turn to believe in yourself as well as your team. We've got to turn it around and make guys understand the importance of it, number one, the urgency of it, number two, and leave it out on the floor.

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.

Bertrand Russell

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

Scott Prince

The application at training can be a lot better. We're not pointing the finger at anyone. It's something, as an individual, I know myself I have to work on my game and my attitude at training.

That's the kind of attitude we have here at Cumberland. Everyone sacrifices for the good of the school. We have a lot of people to thank.

I was proud of our defense causing turnovers, and our special teams made big plays. That's a good sign that the attitude of your team is good because the special teams is playing hard.

Brian Greene

We had guys in the past who wanted to win; now we have guys who expect to win. It's an attitude shift in the way we think about ourselves.

James Garner

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

Dan Wilson

It doesn't surprise me. Even in that meeting, I could see he had a good attitude to work and a willingness to learn.

Jim Edmonds

It eases the attitude of the team when you know the whole staff can grind out nine innings and they're going to give us a chance to win. It improves the attitude of our team and it improves the effort of our team.

I tell them all the time: It's a honeymoon. The attitude is great, everybody thinks that you're going in the right direction, but we haven't lost one that counts. When that happens, we'll see what happens.

LaVar Arrington

I think I have a positive attitude because I kind of look at things outside the box,

Paul Mooney

I think I have a mental nappy attitude.

I think he'll like it a little better at 6 1/2 furlongs, seven, or a mile. He's improving. He's a Storm Cat, so he's had a few attitude issues.

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.

Susan Choi

I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they've even opened it, treat it with a 'been there, done that' attitude. I know I did. It took me years to re-open the novel and see how much I'd missed.

Barry Alvarez

I think more than anything else, it's a message of what type of attitude is needed to be successful,

I think leather pants are just better than jeans onstage; they give the performance a nice attitude, and they are also shockingly comfortable. Comfort is key.