The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

There has been a change in attitude, though.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.