Contagious Quotations

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.

The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic day on the L.A. freeways. But, thankfully, we live in an era in which neuroscientists are teaching us about the malleability of our brain and the emotionally contagious nature of our workplaces.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

We've got five seniors who are doing a great job of leading this team, five guys who won't accept anything but the best. There's been a positive, contagious atmosphere, and we've gotten in some good training with good intensity through some brutal heat.

When I live out of discipline, I'm admired - When I live out of passion, I'm contagious.

Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

We hear much of Bolshevism, much of labor unrest; at times, we hear the word 'revolution.' But these are but contagious diseases in the body of civilization, and I believe that the antitoxins of good cheer, mutual confidence, fairness and justice will ultimately cure these ills and make the world healthy and strong again.

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

We've said winning is contagious just as much as losing. This year it seems we've got the contagious side of winning. So as long as we keep with our momentum and intensity up, we should be good. If we want to come on strong, this is a great time to do it.

She plays the whole game, she's always moving forward and she's opportunistic in front of the goal. When you have a player of her ability with the passion she has for the game, it's contagious for the whole team.

My father told me if you're a leader the first thing you want to do is lead by example, ... That's what I'm going to try to do with these guys because if they see me playing hard every day, flying around, flying to the ball on every play, they're going to do the same. It's just going to be contagious. If I'm being lazy, that's going to be contagious also so I just have to lead by example.

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health

Nick won't have a big statistical line at the end of the night, but he played one of his best games of the year. When we were hesitant, he put his head down and got to the rim. That kind of play is contagious to teammates.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

I don't know why (Kentucky's) kids make shots. Shooting gets contagious, and Kentucky has started getting contagious four games ago.

Chris is a real hard worker. Sometimes freshmen stay to themselves. But Chris' work ethic is very contagious in practice. He challenges other boys to push it harder. The competitiveness gets everybody going, and practice goes to a much higher level.

Given that it is a highly contagious disease, we were sure it could spread from one region to another, either through wildlife or through trade and movements of products. So this happened and we are not surprised at all.

He's a complete runner, he's got great vision, good change of direction and he's very powerful. When you get that, it's contagious for everyone and guys finish blocks, guys stay alive. . . . It opens up things for everyone else.

John Holliman was one of a kind -- a CNN original. He passionately loved his family, his friends and his job. John's smile, his humor and his contagious optimism brightened the lives of all who met him.

John Holliman was one of a kind -- a CNN original, ... He passionately loved his family, his friends and his job. John's smile, his humor and his contagious optimism brightened the lives of all who met him.

I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.

It is extremely important for those with chronic medical conditions and the elderly to get vaccinated. Influenza is a highly contagious disease that kills 10,000 to 20,000 people in the U.S. every year and leads to countless additional hospitalizations.

Mamie is a great addition and can make an immediate impact in our program. She is a complete player who has the ability to score from anywhere. Her work ethic will be contagious and her size at the guard position is something that will cause match-up problems from opponents.

Winning and losing are both contagious and right now, we're on the good side of it.

When I took him out of the game (in the final minute), I told him he was a great player and an even better person. He's been such a great leader. He came to practice every day and gave everything he had. He's very dedicated, very passionate, and that passion and energy was very contagious for the other guys on this team.

We were so mad. My girlfriend was out of town, so I couldn't go, but everybody else was bummed. Everybody at the prom was asking, 'Did y'all win? Did y'all win?' I mean, it's become contagious in the school. It's ridiculous.

We have not been great at the line so far this year. It was contagious tonight and the guys went to the line with confidence.

You have several days in advance when you're contagious and you're not showing symptoms and you could be passing it to others.

Suicide is very contagious.

The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.

We thought 3-2 (zone) might be the best way to go and hope that they had an off shooting night. Obviously they didn't. Different guys stepped up and hit the threes and then it gets contagious after that.

We've just been on a roll lately, all through the lineup. Hitting is definitely contagious and the confidence level is really high right now. When everyone is hitting like this, we feel like we can beat anybody.

What stands out? To me, it's the attitude he brings to practice everyday. He's always excited, always ready and there's a contagious aspect to that. Our receivers, for example, know they can't run sloppy routes in practice because Bruce expects more.

This software models any contagious disease. Basically, what we can do is to give the model the characteristics of any contagious disease, such as bird flu, foot and mouth disease or SARS.

The virus is clearly not highly contagious among mammals, and I don't think it's going to become so.

It would be a big boost. We lost the first two and dug ourselves a hole. Winning is contagious. We want to get on a contagious winning streak as we go down the stretch.

I've always said the lack of hitting is contagious when you're losing -- like it becomes contagious like today when everyone's hitting.

Sometimes blocking pucks doesn't feel real good. But that's something he does, and it's something that's contagious with his teammates.

Our concern is that people are coming across the border into Illinois and Wisconsin having this very contagious disease.

Coach Pearl was telling me about a game versus Wisconsin he had. He said that was one of the few leads he's lost in his coaching career. We're picking up on the coaches' mentality, and it's starting to become contagious around here.

At what point do we stop continuing to try? It can be contagious if one or two people a block do it (clean their streets and gutters and trim trees).

This flu is so contagious that they want anyone who has it to stay away. But our kids showed a lot of guts. They wanted to send the seniors out with a win, and they did.

This points out how contagious it is and how common it is in the community. You can go to any community, anywhere in the world, and find people with it.

There were people who came out to practices to support us, and they all had Canadian flags in their windows. It's everywhere. A little contagious energy, and I'm sure it'll only grow as more people arrive.

It's great having him back, because he plays so hard and brings a contagious kind of energy. We've found our rhythm again as a team, and the chemistry is back, and I think he's a big part of that. He's a big part of our success in this tournament.

That man always kills us. He set everybody else up. He found the guys that were hot. All of a sudden it became contagious and they all started shooting well.

Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.

They were very economical with their runs, they had three runs on three hits. We just didn't come up with timely hits. (Tomorrow) If we start the rally we're going to keep it going. Hitting is usually contagious and it wasn't tonight.

Individually we're all struggling confidence-wise. It's hard for your team to be confident when you don't have a lot of individuals who are confident. We're fighting it in a lot of areas of our game. It's up to each guy to find his game, starting with the goaltenders out. And that'll be as contagious in a good way as this is contagious right now in a bad way.

In the first two innings they were going a great job of keeping us off-balance and mixing it up. We came back through the order and started picking it up a little bit. Dustin set the tone and it was sort of contagious and everybody started hitting it.

In the 19th century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of filth, which meant that it was largely understood to be a disease of the poor. According to filth theory, any number of contagious diseases were caused by bad air that had been made foul by excrement or rot.

I really don?t know what happened in the fourth quarter. It seems once one guy hits a shot, it gets contagious and that helped in the fourth quarter.

Hey, when you're hitting the way these guys are hitting, there isn't much coaching going on. The hitting has been contagious -- it's spreading like wild fire. That helps our pitchers relax, too. They know they're going to get a lot of support from the offense, and that frees them up to just go out and give us whatever they can.

Happiness can be just as contagious as misery....

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.

Nothing is so contagious as example.

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

Elephants are contagious.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

The hitting became contagious and everything just clicked.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.

Insanity is contagious.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

Energy is contagious: either you affect people or you infect people.

A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

All vigor is contagious.

Activity is contagious.

Greatness is contagious...You'll catch it if you get around it.

Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!