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" At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. "
Seamus Heaney
Authority
Figure
Habit
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Hamdi Ulukaya
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Community
" What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community. "
Ed Lee
Community
Want
Time
" Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. "
Lou Holtz
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Motivation
Doing
" You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous. "
Adriana Lima
You
Famous
Attitude
" We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. "
Seamus Heaney
General
Go
Literature
" Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust. "
Liz Goldwyn
Rock
City
Celebrate
" Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. "
Brit Hume
Fairness
Attitude
Skill
" It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. "
Joel Osteen
Life
Attitude
Grateful
" Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. "
Agatha Christie
Mind
Crime
Attitude
" A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious. "
Seamus Heaney
Naturally
Ireland
Cautious
" Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. "
Viktor E. Frankl
Choose
Attitude
Circumstances
" I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you. "
Seamus Heaney
You
Water
Interesting
" Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. "
Seamus Heaney
Poetry
Bread
Break
" We're a blue-collar band. That's how we like to think of ourselves. We come from humble beginnings and still have this attitude of really loving to meet people, shake their hands, and talk with them. "
Rickey Medlocke
People
Loving
Humble
" I go into it with the attitude that I'm not going to look at my leg, and as soon as they get the wrapping off of it, I'm like, 'I've got to look.' It's like yelling at a dog going, 'Squirrel!' I cannot not look. And then I spend the rest of the time sitting there with a wet washcloth on my forehead trying to regain consciousness. "
Tony Stewart
Dog
Attitude
Look
" As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too. "
Dan Marino
Fun
Attitude
Team
" Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic. "
Seamus Heaney
Anyone
Too
Optimistic
" I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. "
Grace Jones
Attitude
Animal
Green
" I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time. "
Seamus Heaney
Time
Queen
Against
" If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. "
Karl Jaspers
Attitude
Real
Practice
" The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them. "
Harold S. Geneen
People
You
Attitude
" It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous. "
Tristan MacManus
Focus
Lose
Attitude
" I got to work with Rachel Dratch, and she just had such a funny, roll-with-it attitude when she would approach the stage and could turn anything into a gem. "
Stephnie Weir
Stage
She
Funny
" For Parisian women, it's not about looks; it's not about style - for me, it's more about this beautiful city, culture, and lifestyle. It's more about attitude - style it your own way. "
Jeanne Damas
Attitude
Beautiful
Culture
" My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally. "
Seamus Heaney
Point
Hidden
Speech
" Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. "
Jesse Jackson
Know
Hope
Believe
" I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude. "
Ali Krieger
Control
Attitude
Work
" A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit. "
Ted Lindsay
Me
Attitude
Myself
" I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women. "
Lita Ford
Attitude
Play
Need
" I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band. "
Taylor Swift
Move On
You
Good