476 private quotes tagged attitude

“What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?”— Clifford D. Simak

“I still have a young attitude.”— Pat Morita

“Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.”— Nick Lowe

“The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.”— Nick Lowe

“After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.”— Phillip Noyce

“When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.”— Rick Santelli

“If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.”— Martin C. Smith

“If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.”— Allan Carr

“We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.”— Roy Romer

“In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.”— Bram Cohen

“Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.”— Stuart Chase

“Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.”— Melanie Brown

“With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.”— Doris Roberts

“Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.”— Alicia Witt

“When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'”— Pauline Neville-Jones

“It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.”— Norm MacDonald

“In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.”— David Sanborn

“The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy they were on the fringes of society themselves.”— James Welch

“The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.”— Peter Shilton

“My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.”— James Woods

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

“There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.”— Samantha Mumba

“I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.”— Roy Keane

“I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.”— Leonard Baskin

“There has been a change in attitude, though.”— Daniel Petrie