Famous Quotes & Sayings

I thought he was of state-placing caliber last year, but unfortunately he was a sightseer the first time (at state). Most kids are. This year, with the fact he's already gone there, we're hoping he'll go there with a new attitude and hopefully push for a winning position. I'd like to see him win the whole thing.

I think they're getting better and getting confidence. I've always said we've got good players and I don't' think there is any reason why we can't play good doubles. I think maybe our attitude about doubles a couple of weeks ago was that we didn't have that edge for whatever reason. In practice we looked good and got better in a short span. Today you saw how a confident doubles team plays.

Bernard Hopkins

John said he was there for me and that he could tell me a lot about Tarver. I said, 'Are you serious?' He said he would even get in the ring with me and spar some if I wanted. He said he could still go 15 rounds. He was one of my defenses and he could have had an attitude about it, but he respects my longevity in the game. He understands because we trained so hard in the gym together all those years.

Roger Daltrey

John Peel, with his attitude to music did a lot of bands a lot of favours, including us,

We just believe in the material. And we take it to a new place and improvise. It's all about your attitude and we just try to play great sets.

Andy Goode

You can either fold or stand up and be counted. That attitude is inbred in all of us.

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.

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

Who created the sectarian attitude in Iraq? The occupation. We never heard of this before in our history. But it's good that Condoleezza Rice realizes sectarianism is not good for Iraq. All we want from them is fair and clean elections next month.

Who created the sectarian attitude in Iraq? The occupation, ... We never heard of this before in our history. But it's good that Condoleezza Rice realizes sectarianism is not good for Iraq. All we want from them is fair and clean elections next month.

We can't even think about getting complacent. My attitude after last week is we've got to work even harder. I want to win more than I did last weekend because it's the following weekend.

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.

We're all thrilled to be here, and the boys are committed to playing as hard as they can and doing their best. We talked about how the team that controls its emotions the best will win, and we're not satisfied with just being here. We had a great practice yesterday, and the kids are fired up and have that look in their eyes and an attitude that makes them feel they're going to be successful.

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.

Newt Gingrich

Well, it depends on whether the president instructs his staff to testify. It depends on whether the attitude is obstruction or the attitude is cooperation. And, I think at the moment we don't know what will happen.

Reggie Hamilton

We played hard at the end and did everything our coach told us to do. Coach said to have a positive attitude about everything and just to keep our heads in the game (after the flagrant foul).

Jayne Ann Krentz

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.

Byron Nelson

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

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.

Christian Louboutin

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

Georges St-Pierre

People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

Herbie Hancock

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Herb Kelleher

Hire for attitude, train for skill.

Herb Kelleher

We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.

Herb Kelleher

You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

Henry David Thoreau

If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

Jean de La Fontaine

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Graham Chapman

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.