So long as you've got your friends about you and a good positive attitude you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs in his attitude a motivation above and beyond winning.
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.
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
Having a clear faith based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is everyday between now and the day you die whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now that every day you're going to actually live.
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared there will always be confusion and hate wars and class antagonisms.
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Attitude is everything.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of 'Oh God I've got to do this today.'
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.
Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues ' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination not invention is the supreme master of art as of life.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings and every time I look at them I see something different.
Reading is an art form and every man can be an artist.
Seek art from every time and place in any form to connect with those who really move you.