My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
— Jack White
I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
— Jack Dee
Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
— J. R. Moehringer
Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.
— Iyanla Vanzant
We won't necessarily sledge so much but we do have that attitude of 'They're not going to score the runs, we're going to take the wickets.'
— Isa Guha
We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.
— Ingrid Betancourt
Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
— Imelda Staunton
I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.
— Ian Mckellen
Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
— Hugh Jackman
I have an attitude. It's what I do. I'm edgy. I have an attitude.
— Hope Solo
Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.
— Heywood Broun
I've always said that your attitude is your best friend and your worst enemy.
— Herm Edwards
We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.
— Herb Kelleher
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
— Henry Louis Gates
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.
— Henri Bergson
Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.
— Heather O'Reilly
It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
— Jack Zipes
I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing; I like to do a lot of things.
— Jack O'Brien
There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.
I guess if I'd have more of a producer attitude, maybe I'd sell more records. But I'm basically a songwriter.
— J. J. Cale
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
— Ivan Illich
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
— Irwin Shaw
There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.
— Inara George
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
— Imelda Marcos
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
— Ian Mcewan
I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. I've been rather a good boy and really given it everything when I've accepted a part since then, because I've been given much better parts in films.
— Hugh Grant
I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.
— Hollis Stacy
My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
— Hermann Maier
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
— Herbie Hancock
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
— Henry S. Haskins
The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony.
— Henry Kissinger
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
— Helmut Jahn
A man can be 43, and people will say, 'Oh, he's a cool bachelor, and he just hasn't settled down,' but with a woman, it's, 'Oh, she must have really wanted to get married, but she didn't.' I honestly think that attitude is a little bit sexist.
— Heather Graham
As a player, if your attitude is questioned, it's horrible.
— Jack Wilshere
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
— Jack Kemp
The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
— J. Donald Walters
I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.
— Isla Fisher
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
— Irving Berlin
Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
I understand that some people might think differently, but my duty is to take confidence from playing well. And I'm convinced that with my attitude and ability, everything will go back to being the way it was before. That's what we all want. The Madrid fans and me.
— Iker Casillas
In football, you can win; you can lose. The most important thing is the feeling and the attitude that you show on the pitch.
— Hugo Lloris
Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't recognise, an attitude that doesn't accord with their own, a passage of thought they find hard work, a joke they don't get or of which they don't approve.
— Howard Jacobson
My attitude is different. And no one understands me the way my friends do.
— Hima Das
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
— Herbert Read
Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.
— Henry Rollins
I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.
— Henry B. Eyring
I used to fall into the trap of thinking that taking care of my husband and kids was more important than taking care of myself. Now I have a new attitude: You know when you're on an airplane and the manual tells you to put on your oxygen mask first and then help the person next to you? I feel the same way about my health.
— Heidi Roizen
