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Attitude Quotes
"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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"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
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"It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage."
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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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"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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"It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races."
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"In life, you have a choice to be better or bitter."
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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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"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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"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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"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."
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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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"When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety."
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"Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East."
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"The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."
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"What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books."
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"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."
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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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"Don't settle for a half empty glass, always go for a full one!"
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"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
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"Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised."
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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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"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
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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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"Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us."
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"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
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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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"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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"But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep."
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