Quotes About Attitude

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

Humanity does not strive for happiness; only the English do.

In disrespecting, we show that we still mantain a sense of respect.

There is one thing one has to have: either a cheerful disposition by nature or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge

Numai smintitul se împiedic? de pietre ÅŸi de oameni!

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.

If I was married to a guy like that, chances are good he'd wind up being a suspicious smell in the attic

Only the mediocre are at their best all the time.

Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.

You have to learn to be a healthy competitor, winning or losing. Because there can be a lot more losses than there are wins.

Steve Davis has found a way of competing to a level that is not as high as it once was, enjoying his wins, and not getting too angry about the defeats.

The biggest players I've seen are the ones that take the wins well - don't get carried away with them - but the defeats really hurt.

As long as my team wins games, who cares what people say?

I consider 100 wins to be better than 100 defeats.

No matter the wins and losses, you can control your attitude. You can control you coming into work each and every day with the right attitude and wanting to get better and trying to get better.

I think I try to separate every single play, because like I said, if you're 0 for 3 with three Ks, the fourth at-bat could be the deciding factor whether your team wins or not. You've got to forget that you've got the 3 Ks.

Don't get me wrong, I always wanted to win, but, after we'd won and won and won, it became more about not wanting to lose than enjoying wins.

Whatever it takes, wins. That's what I'm looking for. I don't care how my face looks after. I don't care how my body looks after.

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

I don't want to be a negative piece of barbed wire sitting up in the booth with all the answers. I think that's a turn-off.

I'm not super-polite or civil - I try to be civil, but I'm not into Seattle's niceties, and I'm not hugely wired into Seattle's natural beauty.