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" An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude. "

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Jessica Brown Findlay

" Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us. "

Earl Nightingale

" In life,you're going to have risk, so you have to say, 'My attitude going forward is how to I fix the problem.' And it's not trying to cling onto the past. When I look around, most problems happen because people are trying to cling onto the past. "

" I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude. "

" I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time. "

" People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude. "

" If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better. "

" As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli. "

" I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.' "

" You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. "

" There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books. "

Terry Pratchett

" My friends and I started that motto early in high school - that attitude, that mentality - from way back then: Want to go to Stanford? Why not? Want to play in the NBA? Why not? "

Russell Westbrook

" 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

" If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you're not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there is no room in showbiz for a dancing violinist - well then, by all means, pull out your eye patch, my friend, and take to the high seas. "

Lindsey Stirling

" I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s and '70s. My attitude resembles that of my parents, who were born in the '20s and lived through the Great Depression and World War II. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Harrison Birtwistle

" I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine. "

" Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. "

" I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude. "

" One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness. "

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

" Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. "

Morris Raphael Cohen

" New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard. "

" A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me. "

" There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world. "

" This idea that if you're pro-environment you're anti-energy is just something we've got to change, so that attitude is something we're working on very much. "

" It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing. "

" What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse. "

" A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth. "