William James Quotes
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
Octavia E. Butler -
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Patricia Neal -
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
Nancy Pearcey -
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Pat Riley -
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
Barbara Corcoran -
Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
Ferguson Jenkins
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Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
Natalie Massenet -
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
Karl Jaspers -
Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
Walt Kelly -
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
Ferdinand Christian Baur -
We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
Sam Houston -
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen
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I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
Kate Bosworth -
I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.
Nadine Velazquez -
The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
Walter Kirn -
I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
Larisa Oleynik -
So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.
Hans Blix -
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Irwin Shaw
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If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
Buzz Osborne -
All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.
Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones -
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic.
Oscar Wilde -
I knew if I were ever to leave 'Godspell,' which I loved so much, it would have to be for something really spectacular.
Lindsay Mendez -
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
William James