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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
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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.
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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.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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The more time goes by, the more things will happen to you in your life. And the ability to be positive throughout and look for the good in people, look for the good in situations - it's so important.
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I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.
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What passions cannot music raise or quell?
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It is neither necessary nor appropriate for the president to testify.
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I like that there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real life. I'm a little less interested in the current fad of being obsessed with superheroes and things that are so out of the box.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
