Quotes About Attitude

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

Abundance is a state of mind, more than a reflection of wealth.

We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.

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.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.