Quotes About Attitude

The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.

I'm not gonna deny it, I walk around with hundred dollar bills hanging out of my pocket.

I don't think what's in my pocketbook matters.

Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going to be all moans and groans and complaints, and what is there to laugh about?' But I found plenty to laugh about.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

To me, point of view is everything.

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.

Being at United, you always get quite disappointed if you don't get all three points, as you believe you can go into every single game and win it.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

I never could make it to morning classes. I never felt like I needed to do it. I remember being in class, and saying, I don't care about this, I don't need to know this.'

The classical music world is so snobbish.

Whether it is a classy performance where you are creating a lot of chances or a scrappy one-goal win, it doesn't matter.

The skateboarders are snobbier - their look is much cleaner than ravers'.

I got some big breaks early on, and the attitude around it was always 'You're just lucky to be here.' No one came out and said that, but that was the clear message. And I felt that way.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

As cliche as it sounds, I've always told myself, 'Don't worry about the things you can't control. Control the things you can control.' That battle has beat up on me for years.

It is an old cliche but it is game by game for me.

When it does not click offensively, it is very easy to get down defensively.