Quotes about Attitude

“I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.”

“I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.”

“Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move.”

“I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.”

“First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.”

“I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.”

“Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.”

“The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.”

“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”

“An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.”

“That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.”

“I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'”

“I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.”

“Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.”

“When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.”

“Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.”

“The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.”

“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”

“To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.”

“I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.”

“Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.”