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Attitude Quotes


"Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us."



"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect."


"My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect."


"You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it."


""No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."


"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."


"Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching."


"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."


"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."


"Be moderate in everything, including moderation."


"My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel."


"Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws."


"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."



"My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face."


"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."


"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."


"Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear."


"Life is mental, it's all about attitude. The majority of it is lived in your head."


"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."



"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."


"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made."


"I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference."


"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."


"Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate, his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically."


"I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing."


"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."


"When you put on a new cloth with the same attitude, you are only changing the diet that goes into the same stomach!"


"Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy."



"I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets."
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