Attitude Quotes - Page 30

• I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.

  Akinyele

  Shoes, Blue, Rude

  Song: The Bomb, Album: Vagina Diner, 1993

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• A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it is their business to defend such a successful system against criticism as long as it is not conclusively disproved - are adopting the very reverse of that critical attitude which in my view is the proper one for the scientist.

  Karl Popper

  Believe, Successful, Science

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.28, Routledge

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• It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world.

  Kinky Friedman

  Health, Healthy, World

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.

  Bill McKibben

  Powerful, Thinking, Order

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• Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

  Gage Taylor

  Art, Life Is, Scene

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• We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.

  Alain Vigneault

  Real, Hockey, Player

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• In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humble, Boys, Past

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• I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

  Michael Chang

  Winning, Past, Play

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• Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, College, Play Hard

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• The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

  Jim Fowler

  People, Challenges, Care

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• Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Female, Body, Want

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

  Richard Hell

  Appreciation, Art, Years

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• I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.

  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Giving, Trying, New You

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.

  Sally Hawkins

  Strong, Philosophy, Work Ethic

  "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

  Tony Hillerman

  Two, Mind, Thieves

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• Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

  Etta James

  Children, Comedian, Littles

  "Etta James Says Beyonce Cracks Were A Joke", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2009.

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• The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Philosophy, Long, Romance

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• I went and got a tire tool out of my truck, and straightened him out as cold as a block of ice. It was an attitude adjustment, and it'll work every time.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Revenge, Block, Ice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

  Milovan ?ilas

  Long, Normal, Revolutionary

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• I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

  Margaret Mahy

  Believe, Writing, Character

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• I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

  Christopher Nolan

  Waiting, Bits

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• Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.

  Heather O'Reilly

  Great Attitude, Coaches

  "Win An Autographed World Cup Game Ball!". Interview with Kim Tranell, www.seventeen.com. September 14, 2011.

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• In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

  Keith O'Brien

  Compassion, Hands, Years

  "Lockerbie bomber: Scottish Catholic leader attacks US 'culture of vengeance'" by Jenny Percival, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2010.

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• Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.

  Marisha Pessl

  Book, People, Abstract Painting

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• Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Self, Expression, Ideas

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.26, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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