Quotes About Attitude

It's important to set a tone and get some momentum.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.

Tone can be as important as text.

Culture is very important to the Mavs. Your best player has to be a fit for what you want the culture of the team to be. He has to be someone who leads by example. Someone who sets the tone in the locker room and on the court. It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

Tone is everything.

When you're a TV star, you pretty much set the tone, and on 'Police Woman,' we goofed around all the time.

Personally and politically, I'm extremely conservative for who I am, but I'm also very careful in my tone.

Tone matters more than words.

I'm going to finish my runs hard, and I'm going to try to set the tone.

Tone is very important to me.

You have more of an opportunity than people think to impact a game through the tone that you can set. You can't control everything, setting that tone is important.

It's really the tone that people use to convey things sometimes that can either become a compliment or an insult. It's not always what you are saying, it's about how you say it.

I do extensive storyboards so people can get a sense of what we're doing, and what the attitude and tone is. I work a lot with the actors. I like to go to sets or locations with them before shooting so that they know what they'll be doing on the day. I have found actors really do like to know about blocking, etc., before the shoot day comes.

I've tried to tone down some of my peppiness, but for those who don't like it, just as many do like it.

Sometimes my tone stinks.

I think the players set the tone right away in spring training.

I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

I was born a cripple, with two club feet, and mild polio in the left leg. I was in orthopaedic boots right through to my teenage years and, unfortunately, the fashion then was for light shoes. I discovered very quickly that I had a sharp mind and an exceedingly sharp tongue.

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.

When life is going to present you with tons of problems - really hard ones, some less hard, some debilitating - it's what you do about them that matters.

Life is too short to be negative.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.