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Attitude Quotes
"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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"When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic."
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"The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant."
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"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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"Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish."
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"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."
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"Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me."
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"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness."
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"Boredom is for the selfish."
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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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"I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc."
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"I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out."
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"I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison."
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"Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised."
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"When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety."
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"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."
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"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."
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"Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude."
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"The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight."
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"There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude."
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"I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat."
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"What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing."
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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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"Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you."
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"The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight."
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"In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks."
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"The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."
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"The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training."
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"I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant."
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"Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows."
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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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"In life, you have a choice to be better or bitter."
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"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."
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"Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia."
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