Quotes About People's Attitudes

#1. I'm out to change people's attitudes about them. Wolves are a whole lot more than just predators who feast on a rancher's herd. They're smart and clever and loyal and courageours, and sometimes they do really stupid, silly things, just like people.

R.C. Ryan

#2. Self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.

Stephen R. Covey

#3. We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'

Marianne Williamson

#4. The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

Gerald Jonas

#5. If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

William Julius Wilson

#6. Common culture is in disrepute because many believe our Western tradition has promoted uniquely oppressive and imperialistic attitudes and practices. But it remains the case that no community can exist unless the people in it share important aspects of their lives in common.

George W. Carey

#7. Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration ... tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

Francis Bacon

#8. I like people's attitudes more than fashion or beauty or whatever it is.

Kat Dennings

#9. There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

Adam Gopnik

#10. Trust is like that. Once you lose it, you begin to adjust your attitudes toward people, you put up guards, and filter the information you want them to know.

Gilly Macmillan

#11. Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

John C. Maxwell

#12. Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

Edmund Hillary

#13. Attitudes to mental health are slowly changing, there's less stigma among healthcare workers and a greater commitment to provide mental health treatment when doctors and nurses can see people do get better.

Reggie Fils-Aime

#14. I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a hateful, characterization of and set of attitudes toward gay and lesbian people.

James Alison

#15. I'm sure that all this, I mean other people's attitudes towards me, lies principally in some obscure intrinsic flaw in my own temperament. Perhaps I communicate a coldness that unwittingly obliges others to reflect back my own lack of feeling.

Fernando Pessoa

#16. She tried to explain to them it wasn't the place that made people uncultured but their attitudes.

Vivian Arend

#17. Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It is truly inspiring to see that. My love for the country starts with them.

Noah Munck

#18. How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

Ellen Goodman

#19. Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

Alan W. Watts

#20. When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because he was abusive. Abusers carry attitudes that produce fury.

Lundy Bancroft

#21. People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.

Jill Robinson

#22. Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out ... You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.

Mae Jemison

#23. She had to stop judging people. But was that possible? Wasn't interaction based, in part, on judgments? A person's background and attitudes influenced how she responded to them.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances.

Bree Despain

#25. Ah," said Lien Shu, "it is true that a blind person cannot appreciate beautiful patterns and forms, and the deaf cannot appreciate the music of bells and drums. Yet blindness and deafness do not only afflict people physically, they also exist in the minds and attitudes of people.

Zhuangzi

#26. I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty ... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself ... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.

Queen Latifah

#27. It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.

Terry Crowley

#28. I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

Aldrich Ames

#29. I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

Sidney Sheldon

#30. As someone who was gay bashed as a kid, I learned firsthand how a lot of people only feel good about themselves when they sense that someone or something is on a lower rung than they are. This inferiority complex drives racism and sexism as well as outdated attitudes about animals.

Dan Mathews

#31. I'm more influenced by people's attitudes and spirits than by their particular style. Whether it's Elsie de Wolfe or Pauline de Rothschild, I always admire women who had a vision and stuck to it. Because ultimately, the way you live has to be a reflection of you.

Charlotte Moss

#32. That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.

Tom Segev

#33. Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Joe Biden

#34. As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.

David Harsanyi

#35. Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

Marvin J. Ashton

#36. We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda

#37. The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes. While practically all Americans have learned to talk inoffensively, not enough have learned to think differently, nor act positively.

Whitney M. Young

#38. Worship is accomplished with the life as well as with the words and attitudes of people. Changed and transformed lives testify to the character and supernatural power of the God of heaven. Closeness to Him produces changes in character and holiness.

Max Anders

#39. Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Prince Charles

#40. Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia.

Pope Francis

#41. People who have wellbeing and feel fulfilled, need far less than people who feel unfulfilled, who always seem to need more. By Rethinking Your Mindset you can create SWIFT sustainable success.

Tony Dovale

#42. We have special voices for different people; our attitudes, our moods change depending on whom we are with.

Orson Scott Card

#43. But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Stanley Crouch

#44. The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction.

Tony Dovale

#45. To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

Tommy Chong

#46. People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

Asia Argento

#47. When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and our attitudes and perspectives may vary. But in the heart-where it really counts-we're a lot alike.

M. Russell Ballard

#48. Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part of our job is to teach people this latter mentality.

James Key

#49. Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Paul Harvey

#50. Therefore, reading and reacting to other people's behaviors, emotions, and attitudes have been hardwired into our brains. We are not only wired to connect, but we are also wired to attune to, resonate with, and learn from others.

Louis Cozolino

#51. If a public groundswell occurs without altering people's attitudes or shifting the cultural dialogue at least slightly, then it's not a movement - it's just a fad.

Scott Goodson

#52. Even though he grew up in churches, raised by church people, Waterhouse (as must be obvious by this point) never really understood their attitudes about sex. Why did they get so hung up on that one issue, when there were others like murder, war, poverty, and pestilence?

Neal Stephenson

#53. The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Jim Fowler

#54. The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!

Tony Dovale

#55. Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

Epictetus

#56. If, like Charles Silberman, we think school "should prepare people not just to earn a living but to live a life - a creative, humane, and sensitive life,"22 then children's attitudes toward learning are at least as important as how well they perform at any given task.

Alfie Kohn

#57. People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Erica Jong

#58. Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

Hamza Yusuf

#59. I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that.

Jerry Lawler

#60. Is it right for people to critique others for their supposed un-Christian attitudes by themselves being un-Christian?

James Martin

#61. Sociology professor Osagie K. Obasogie recently produced some ingenious research - he interviewed people blind from birth and found the same attitudes about race as in the sighted world.

Anonymous

#62. Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes.

Scott Tinley

#63. Spreading the word about depression is my mission. I am working to build awareness, educate people about the symptoms, and change public opinion and individual attitudes about depression.

Susan Polis Schutz

#64. He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

George Orwell

#65. There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#66. I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

Tim Curry

#67. While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

Robert Teeter

#68. Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

Alfred A. Montapert

#69. People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.

Earl Nightingale

#70. Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.

Ben Barnes

#71. We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset.
Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a conscious, high performance organisation

Tony Dovale

#72. Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.

Robin Lee Hatcher

#73. I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.

Ruby Gettinger

#74. Rampton suggested that one could derive a "fair picture of a man's true attitudes and motives from what he says and from the kind of people he associates with and speaks to.

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#75. I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

Michael Hutchence

#76. self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness!
If the public did not hold negative and stigmatizing attitudes in the first place, these would never have become internalized, causing people the painful and disabling experience of self-stigma.

Patrick W. Corrigan

#77. Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.

Marisha Pessl

#78. The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols," he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then "cut their legs from under them," simply "to make their fall all the greater.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#79. The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.

Pope John Paul II

#80. Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

Edgar Degas

#81. In this case, the actual presence of the Spirit of God upon Jesus stirred up a hunger for God in the people. That hunger brought a change in their attitudes without their being told it should change.

Bill Johnson

#82. God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

Ernest Hemingway,

#83. Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

Edgar Degas

#84. Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.

Paul Gitwaza

#85. It is not to say that everything is fine and a positive attitude is all you need. But I share about values and principles and attitudes and I never tell people I understand their pain.

Nick Vujicic

#86. To the extent people prioritize values and goals such as achievement, money, power, status and image, they tend to hold more negative attitudes towards the environment, are less likely to engage in positive environmental behaviors, and are more likely to use natural resources unsustainably,

Naomi Klein

#87. Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

#88. That was the sort of thing crazy people did - instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes.

Michel Faber

#89. In areas where the Bible has left us free, when we carry out Christian ministry, we should be constantly engaged in cultural adaptation - refraining from certain attitudes or behaviors to remove unnecessary stumbling blocks from the paths of people with culturally framed perceptions.

Timothy Keller

#90. I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.

Roy Harper

#91. I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Frances O'Grady

#92. You can't change other people's attitudes, but you can change how you react to those people.

Michael Lawrence

#93. I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

Elton John

#94. I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.

Boris Johnson

#95. I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.

Daniel Kahneman

#96. I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes ... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.

Penelope Cruz

#97. Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me.

Adrian Tomine

#98. I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

Eddie Murphy

#99. When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only you tried harder or if you had been trained differently. I'm hoping that the newfound certainty that autism is in your brain and in your genes will affect public attitudes.

Temple Grandin

#100. The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.

Phyllis Schlafly