Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling… It’s the attitude that’s in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. – August Wilson
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past. – Aleksander Kwasniewski
The American attitude is ‘We’re the best’. That’s why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game. – Andrew Bogut
In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That’s the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate. – Cory Booker
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game. – Boris Spassky
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. – Charles R. Swindoll
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. – Bill Veeck
But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land. – The Bible Numbers 14:24
I like to wear dresses and skirts when I go onstage because the attitude that I have is, ‘I’m so excited to introduce myself to you.’ And I want to be wearing what I’d be wearing to a date or a dinner party. – Jenny Slate
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
I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. – Amy Adams
That attitude that I wouldn’t succeed didn’t come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn’t going to settle for that, and my mother warned us not to settle for less, to make the most of our lives. – Alexis Wright
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. – Aung San Suu Kyi
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. – Aldous Huxley
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. – Charles R. Swindoll
In terms of work I’ve always had a Bad Attitude in that I won’t work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don’t know if that’s an Asperger’s thing or not, I think it’s just being reasonable. – Bram Cohen
I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning. – Boomer Esiason
Fairness is not an attitude. It’s a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. – Brit Hume
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. – Cheech Marin
We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a ‘what-can-you-do-for-me?’ attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground. – Ben Carson
I’ve always had that attitude about my career: it’s something that I do, but it’s not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I’ve got a lot of chickens, I’ve got a horse, I’ve got a kitty-cat, I’ve got a lot of goats, I’ve got animals all over the place. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother’s face, her aspect and her attitude. – Beck
I was stupid when I started: the epitome of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. It was like, ‘I get to live in L.A. and drive around in limos? Really?’ I didn’t realize I was owned. The more money gets pumped into you, the more you become a marionette. It made me a true redneck in attitude: I never wanted to wake up ever again feeling owned. – Al Jourgensen
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. – Billy Graham
I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. – Colin Powell
Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government. – Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight. – Billy Corgan