“Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you are still trying to take off, a bad attitude, will keep you on the ground, revving your engines but going nowhere.” IfsWayTryingStillsAttitudeDown AndDetermineEnginesBad AttitudeCrashing Down Author:Strive Masiyiwa
“There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.” IfsWritingMeanI CanBookFeelingsAttitudeRichAirMinesLots Of MoneyWriting A BookGhastly Author:Terry Pratchett
“My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity; at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I'm hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money.” PeopleIfsWayHumansHeartMayStillsRealHelpingUseHappensAbleRememberGuyHuman BeingsLevelsAttitudeAmountToolsFinancialFactorsHopefullyPunkPopularityReal ThingsMy AttitudeRight DirectionBlundersFingertipsCloutVilify Author:Jello Biafra
“Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you're coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.” IfsThinkingWayEyeLyingAttitudePracticeMeditationAwarenessWalkingSittingStandingSteadyComing OutPostureWherever You AreLying Down Author:Ajahn Chah
“What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized” IfsNeedsLongHelpingSeemsMightRunningAttitudeEconomicAcceptanceSucceedBenefitsReformBeing RealLong Runs Author:Shashi Tharoor
“A lot of "successful" people are tragedies, because what they've accomplished aren't the things they wanted. Intentionally create the question "how" instead of accidentally relenting to the question of "should." If I'm not intentionally choosing a good attitude, I'm almost always unintentionally choosing a negative one.” PeopleIfsShouldWantedAttitudeSuccessfulNegativeTragedyAccomplishedSuccessful PeopleGood Attitude Author:Rory Vaden
“Success is always an easier motivator, because you want more of it. But I've also been motivated by failure. Had I medaled in London, I don't think I would be one of the few that have gone to a Summer and Winter. I would have been content with that medal. Instead, I used that failure to go to the Winter Olympics. I always tell people that failure can be one of your biggest motivators if you just have an attitude adjustment about it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHas BeensWould BeUsedAttitudeGoneEasierSummerWinterLondonMotivatedOlympicsMedalAdjustmentSummer And WinterAttitude AdjustmentWinter Olympics Author:Lolo Jones
“There is a theory, that I rather subscribe to. The frame story implies that if he doesn't change, she will kill him. It's all very complex and subtle. The story is about a woman who persuades a man in power to a different temper and attitude, and so it is about women's wiles, what women will get up to. She has a plan, she has a scheme.” IfsMenDifferentStoriesAttitudePlansTheoryComplexesGet UpSubtleTemperSchemes Author:Marina Warner
“It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.” IfsSaidEasyDifficultAttitudeDemocracyDrugRegardForgivingProductionsLeagueSincerityAggressiveOne TimeRunnersThey SaidNever Forgive Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.” IfsYearsFirstsHardShowsMotivationalAttitudeCuttingHard WorkBasketballGet BetterGoing To WorkJordanBest Ever Author:Magic Johnson
“The people that have looked out for me and helped to steer me in the right direction, I just can't thank them enough. So, the drive, a lot of times it just comes down to looking around at the people who love and believe in you and realizing that you owe it to them. Even if I have a bad attitude on a certain occasion, I owe it to all these people around me to just come out and drive, push, and try to make this thing the best that I can” PeopleIfsTryingBelieveI CanEnoughCertainRealizingAttitudeOccasionsBelieve In YouSteersRight DirectionBad Attitude Author:Cody Johnson
“If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.” PeopleIfsCareAttitude Author:Sakyong Mipham
“If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.” PeopleIfsLevelsAttitudeInspirePositive Attitude Author:Sakyong Mipham
“One of the things I do know about investment from around the world and job creators: they won't come to British Columbia if our attitude is well, "no," or all of our processes are just going to be a way of making sure you can't get to "yes." They'll just go somewhere else. Those jobs will be somewhere else.” IfsKnowsWorldWayWellsJobsProcessAttitudeInvestmentCreatorBritishAround The WorldSomewhere ElseColumbiaBritish ColumbiaJob Creators Author:Christy Clark
“We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.” IfsThinkingGivingTryingStillsEndsCharacterHomeFilmCausesAbilityDecisionAttitudeGreaterTeamFiguresSpeechCreatingPicksDamageWitchNew LifeScarletGreater GoodAvengersSurrogates Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“I could be worried about it if I had the wrong attitude. I don't think that I want my life and my daily occurrences to influence the direction. I don't want my daily life or my happiness to be a direct influence on music or my sadness.” IfsThinkingWantAttitudeSadnessInfluenceDirectWorriedDaily LifeWrong Attitude Author:Justin Vernon
“If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.” IfsDifficultAttitudeHighestPositive AttitudeServingDifficult TimesEvaluationUnclear Author:Deborah Day
“My personal attitude is this: I will stand for revival, unity and prayer; I will labor to restore healing and reconciliation between God's people. Yet, if all God truly wanted was to raise up one fully yielded son--a son who would refuse to be offended, refuse to react, refuse to harbor unforgiveness regardless of those who slander and persecute--I have determined to be that person. My primary goal in all things is not revival, but to bring pleasure to Christ.” PeopleIfsPersonsWantedGoalChristPrayerPleasureHealingAttitudeSonLaborAll ThingsRaisesUnityRefuseDeterminedPrimariesOffendedReconciliationRevivalHarborsSlanderRaise Up Author:Francis Frangipane
“Well, in fact if you look at the Trump voters, you take a look at their attitudes it's not all that different. In some respects they're similar. They're an older version of the Sanders people. So a lot of it is racist and you have that sort of thing, but if you look at their views on say health, education, and so on, it's kind of the same as Sanders.” PeopleIfsWellsLooksKindDifferentFactsViewsAttitudeTrumpVersionsRacistVotersHealth Education Author:Noam Chomsky
“My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.” IfsFeelingsWould BeAttitudeRepublicanClimateSpeciesClimate Change Author:Noam Chomsky
“I would like to say that racial attitude and prejudice are probably here...It is very difficult to act this out - discrimination - discrimination is an act. After you have the prejudices, the disciminations come out, if there is an institution for it but the Cubans have attempted to create institutions free of discrimination.” IfsDifficultAttitudePrejudiceInstitutionsDiscriminationCuban Author:Huey Newton
“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” IfsThinkingInspirationalMotivationalTurnsAttitudeStrengthBasketballWeaknessWeakInspirational AttitudePositive AttitudeHard TimesPositive LifeMy AttitudeBeing StrongBasketball PlayerFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballBasketball MotivationStrength And WeaknessAthlete MotivationalWinning AttitudeBest AttitudeNba PlayerBasketball TeamworkPower And StrengthStrength WeaknessWeak PointsBasketball TrainingGreatest BasketballWrong Attitude Book:I'm back!: more rare air Source: I'm back!: more rare air
“I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude.” IfsThinkingShouldMeanDoeAttitudeProveShould Have Author:Serena Williams
“My attitude was always, if you are a huge metal fan, the more dedicated and more obsessive a metal fan you are, then why wouldn't you like more metal, widen your net, and include hair metal?” IfsAttitudeFansHugeHairDedicatedMetalsObsessiveMy AttitudeMetal FansHair Metal Author:Martin Popoff
“If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. ... Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning."” IfsWayShouldWellsFactsStoriesWantedLawScienceLyingOrderCoursesAttitudeCasesStudyAchieveJudgingJudgmentScientistPrejudiceCriticalAriseDataMeritReasoningWhy NotDetectivesHolmesDogmaticWithholdingDetective StoriesStory WritersFalsification Author:Anthony Standen
“The thought must have its own center of gravity; it cannot just be either here or there. We must find this center of gravity. It is the same for the body; if it is not centered, no movement will be possible. It is the same for the feeling. These Movements are designed to enable us to pass from one center of gravity to another; it is the shift that creates the state. The gesture, the movement, is what is important, not the attitudes.” IfsImportantStatesFeelingsBodyAttitudeMovementGravityGesturesCenter Of Gravity Author:Jeanne de Salzmann
“The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.” IfsKidsAttitudeWatchesFivePolicyAdultsResourcesVotePopulationAgencyTarget Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.” IfsAttitudePolicyAdultsPopulationTarget Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“You've got each other's back. I think if everyone shows up with that attitude, then everybody has a great time, and I think the work is better as well.” IfsThinkingWellsShowsAttitudeGreat Times Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."” IfsYearsMadeKidsRememberAttitudeTeamCaptainsSeventeenGood AttitudeSeventeen Years Old Author:John C. Maxwell
“I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.” PeopleIfsWellsLooksKindPersonsHomeTogetherProcessAttitudeSuccessfulHugeTomorrowDegreesRelateRestaurantsIf I CouldAccuracyPrioritize Author:John C. Maxwell
“The media does not act like they ever lose. If Trump wins, their attitude is gonna be, "Well, it's just gonna take us a little longer to destroy him." And they will continue to try to destroy Trump. And they will do it by finding Democrats who think that he deserves to be impeached.” IfsThinkingTryingWellsLittlesDoeWinningLosesAttitudeMediaTrumpFindingsDeserveDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into our society and culture. So these tendencies are fairly universal. The problem is what if they get out of hand and become the dominant factor in a society, which can only lead to the oppression of minorities or even to war with neighboring societies with differing cultures. That's why it seems to me it's important to try to keep these tendencies toward extremism under control.” IfsTryingImportantWarProblemHandsSeemsCultureAttitudeTakenMovementUniversalCriticalImmigrationTendenciesFactorsOppressionMinoritiesOur SocietyImmigrantsWhat IfDominantHostileExtremismAssimilationFundamentalistHad FunSociety And Culture Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to transcend our ordinary conventional mind. This takes an enormous amount of determination and perseverance. It also requires an attitude of being relaxed and spacious, rather than tense and stressed. It's certainly not a matter of lying back and expecting it all to happen. If we don't make it happen, it won't!” IfsMindMatterWholeHappensLyingAttitudeBuddhismAmountOrdinaryDeterminationPerseveranceActiveEnormousExpectingConventionalRelaxedTenseStressedMake It HappenPerseverance And Determination Author:Tenzin Palmo
“That's a very privileged attitude and I think the ignorance is so strong there. When people say, "Oh please, I don't want to hear that conversation," it's because it makes them uncomfortable." But that's because they think it's all okay. If it was racist, I would move onto someone whose mind I could change, but it's mostly ignorance. So when someone says, "Oh, it doesn't matter," I not only make designers responsible but casting directors and modeling agencies for not pushing those other girls on to the designers.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMindMatterMovingGirlStrongAttitudeIgnorancePleaseDirectorsConversationOkayResponsibleUncomfortableAgencyDesignerRacistPushingPrivilegedCastingModelingOther GirlCasting Directors Author:Bethann Hardison
“In general, the attitude towards Nazi Germany was not that hostile, especially if you look at the U.S. State Department reports. In 1937 the State Department was describing Adolf Hitler as a "moderate" who was holding off the forces of the right and the left.” IfsLooksStatesLeftForceAttitudeGermanyDepartmentReportsNaziHostileModeratesDescribingNazi Germany Author:Noam Chomsky
“Part of what makes me most optimistic is if you look at the attitudes of young people. Across the board, young people are much more comfortable with respecting differences. They are much more comfortable with diversity.” PeopleIfsLooksYoungDifferencesAttitudeComfortableDiversityOptimisticBoards Author:Barack Obama
“I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's stupid and wrong. Sometimes you do deserve things without having to put yourself through agony.” IfsFeelsSometimesFightingAttitudeHavensStupidConsciousDeserveAgony Author:George Michael
“There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated.” IfsWayShouldLittlesWarRunningGuyBitsAttitudeOne ThingAdvicePolicyLittle BitMouthsSizeComplicatedForeign PolicyPeersGood WaySmackBad Advice Author:Barack Obama
“The American people want to make sure that the rules of the game are fair. And what that means is that if you look at surveys around Americans' attitudes on trade, the majority of the American people still support trade. But they're concerned about whether or not trade is fair, and whether we get the same access to other countries' markets that they have with us. Is there just a race to the bottom when it comes to wages, and so forth.” PeopleIfsWantLooksMeanStillsCountryGamesRaceAttitudeSupportConcernedFairsTradeMajorityBottomAccessOther CountriesWagesSurveysRules Of The Game Author:Barack Obama
“There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.” IfsKidsCertainBlackWhiteAttitudeClassMiddleEatingPopulationKitchenMiddle ClassPercentages Author:Barack Obama
“I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude. You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone.” IfsThinkingShouldMeanDoeAttitudeProveShould HaveBeing The Best Author:Serena Williams
“What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us. My mom gave me my moral code which, even if I was bad, I wasn't bad for very long. If you're born and raised Catholic, it stays with you a lifetime. It's a good thing to have. My dad gave me a very professional attitude to the music business, and for that I thank them 100%.” IfsLongMotherFatherBornReligiousAttitudeMoralMomDadMusicianCatholicGood ThingsLifetimeRaisedMy DadMy MomCodeUpbringingMusic BusinessBorn And RaisedMoral Code Author:Suzi Quatro
“My attitude affects my actions. So, if I have a negative attitude about it, then it is going to show up in the way I respond, but if I have a positive attitude, then I start looking for the things I can do that will make my life better and make the lives of people around me better.” PeopleIfsWayI CanShowsActionCan DoAttitudeNegativePositive AttitudeMy AttitudeNegative AttitudeHaving A Positive Attitude Author:Gary Chapman
“China is both an adversary, but also a potential partner in the international community if it's following the rules. So my attitude coming into office was that we are going to insist that China plays by the same rules as everybody else.” IfsPlayCommunityAttitudeOfficeInternationalFollowingChinaPartnersAdversariesMy AttitudeInternational Community Author:Barack Obama
“If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.” IfsCoursesAttitudeCuttingPoliticianResponsibleSpendingBiasTaxationBeing ResponsibleGet Money Author:James M. Buchanan
“The problem is that we didn't fight the way we should've fought. We made it be about [Donald Trump] and [Hillary Clinton] as opposed to making it be about us. If we had said this was a fight, not about "I'm with Her" but "I'm with Us" then maybe we would've had a different attitude toward her.” IfsWayShouldMadeSaidDifferentProblemFightingAttitudeTrumpClintonMade ItDifferent Attitude Author:Van Jones
“The people that choose to face life, the people that choose to embrace it, the people that choose to just soak it up, the people that choose to dive right in and test their limits and find out what they're capable of and how good they can be and if that's really what they want to do, victims are gonna hate them because they are showing what anybody could do if they just had an attitude adjustment.” PeopleIfsWantFacesHateAttitudeLimitsCapableTestsVictimEmbraceAdjustmentAttitude Adjustment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsIdeasUseGovernmentDifficultTermWealthAttitudeGroupsSubjectsParticularMassAngryPrivilegeIdeologyIf I CouldElitesRamificationsOverused Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“My mother's work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.” IfsWorldWayBookMotherFoundAttitudeLessonsEthicsCustomersTreatedWork Ethic Author:Bill Capodagli