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Quotations on Attitude 161 Quotes Found Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around. I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that. A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me. I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living. Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have. The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does. 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. People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude. Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. 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. I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music. For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. 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. Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time. Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization. You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person. Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic. 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. There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude. It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like. I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work. I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind. We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice. An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live. America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China. There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude. The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally. I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women. If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor. The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
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