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Attitude Quotes
"I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know."
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"If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better."
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"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony."
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"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."
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"My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky."
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"I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe."
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"We've been seeing some good things from Randy. We're starting to see that Randy Johnson attitude that we've been looking forward to seeing."
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"By focusing your thoughts on the things you are thankful for, you attract more things to be grateful for into your life."
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"There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it."
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"Nothing closes doors as quickly as constant bad humor, reclamation, whining. Nobody wants to associate themselves with losers."
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"Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back."
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"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."
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"Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else."
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"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
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"My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it."
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"Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus."
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"Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude."
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"I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts."
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"If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts."
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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
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"The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that."
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"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
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"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
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"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."
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"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."
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"To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel."
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"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
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"I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem."
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"In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized."
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"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are."
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"The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture."
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"Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family."
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