All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I will not get very far with this attitude.

You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.