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" Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me. "

Walter Dean Myers

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" I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict. "

" Attitude determines the altitude of life. "

Edwin Louis Cole

" Cock your hat - angles are attitudes. "

" Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. "

E. F. Schumacher

" I am more interested in people's attitude than someone who is a perfect face. Every time I walk the streets of London, I see someone who interests me. It doesn't matter how old they are. "

" The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. "

" 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

" Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. "

" Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us. "

Mario Vargas Llosa

" I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking? "

Walter Dean Myers

" Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. "

Ludwig von Mises

" The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. "

" Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow. "

Octavia E. Butler

" I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely. "

" Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself. "

" I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time and the River.' 'Of Time and the River' had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, 'Well, what's he doing on the shelf, then?' "

" I want to make sure I always show off my smile and have a positive attitude the whole time, whether it's during a performance, practice, or doing an interview. "

Laurie Hernandez

" Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach. "

" My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was. "

" If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that. "

" Never walk into a hospital crying. Have an attitude that you will make someone else's life better. "

" I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled. "

" Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. "

" A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it. "

" I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this attitude now that I'm going to take all the greatness I can. Nothing's going to stop me. "

" By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned. "

" I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference. "

Crystal Chappell

" It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home. "

Carol Vorderman

" Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. "