Quotes About Attitude

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

She didn't really believe in the possibility of making good things happen with the sheer strength of your desire for them. If anything, it seemed to her, the opposite was true. The moment you wanted anything too fervently, the moment you yearned, the universe gazed with disgust upon your mewling and withheld. To get things, you had to be careless about them, the way that Rosa was.

Some people could look at a mud-puddle and see an ocean with ships. But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps.

You know they say a white man git in some kind of trouble, he'll fret and fret until he kill hisself. A n****r git into trouble, he'll fret for a while, then g'wan to sleep.

I did abuse the game a bit because I didn't give it the respect sometimes.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

You don't play the game to lose. But I also understand that if people are giving their 100% effort, giving it all they've got, it's going to be accepted.

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

Teams really take into account character.

What the press hasn't realized is that I'm just a big kid showing off, and you've got to treat me like that. You know, you don't make big kids accountable.

I have often been accused of actually being 'too nice.'

I didn't want to come across as pricey.

There are a lot of big action movies that we've worked on where the attitude has been, 'Let's just get through this scene.' Then you get those jumpy, what-were-they-thinking action sequences.

If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.

You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to.

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

I like adversity; that's how I am.

I'm ready for any adversity that's going to hit.

You've got to learn to laugh in the face of adversity.

I try to be the same guy every day, no matter the situation, no matter the adversity.