William James Quotes
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Quotes to Explore
-
As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
-
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
-
Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
-
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
-
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
-
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
-
Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
-
When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
-
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
-
I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
-
I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
-
You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
-
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
-
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
-
Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
-
Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
-
I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
-
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
-
When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.
-
Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.
-
I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.
-
I don't like to rehearse, and the film-makers that I have been drawn to are interested in provoking something between people rather than nailing a scene in advance.
-
...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)
-
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
