A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.