Mentality Quotes - Page 18

• The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

  Anna Quindlen

  America, Literature, May

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• Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.

  Kid Rock

  Groupie, Seems

  "Kid Rock: Girls send me knickers & dildos in the post". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 29, 2008.

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• If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

  Alex Steffen

  Media, Opposites, Long

  "Is the Internet the future of community?". The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel.

  Renzo Rosso

  Ideas, Luxury, Denim

  "Renzo Rosso: No Stopping His Engine". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 17, 2009.

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• There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

  Auguste Rodin

  Spiritual, Art, Powerful

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1984). “Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.

  Tim Tebow

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

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• But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.

  Tina Turner

  Believe, Power, Use

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• Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Loneliness, Lying

  Cornel West (1998). “Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America”, G K Hall & Company

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• Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve a mentality beyond the old rules, to let them imagine that this combat among women is not inevitable. Surgeons can now do anything. We have not yet reached the age in which we can defend ourselves with an unwillingness to have "anything" done. This is a dangerous time. New possibilities for women quickly become new obligations.

  Naomi Wolf

  Struggle, Age, Done

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• Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming it was even real - hardly had the strength to counter the many other acts of wrong he committed against me. Contrary to romance novels and the love-conquers-all mentality that even those of us who grow up in an era of divorce are - in response to some atavistic instinct - still raised to believe, love is always a product and a victim of circumstances. It is fragile and small.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Growing Up, Father, Real

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• Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Suicide, College

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things. It's a very mental sport and at the same time can be dramatically physical. But I do admire the mentality of sport more than the physicality because physical performance is much easier to practice than mental performance.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Golf, Practice

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.

  Nina Jacobson

  Thinking, Careers, Perspective

  "EXCLUSIVE: Producer Nina Jacobson Talks The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.

  Amy Adams

  Girl, Jobs, Thinking

  "Amy Adams: 'David O Russell said to me: "You are so not the princess type" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2012.

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• I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.

  Sebastian Bach

  Song, Rocks, Years

  "Sebastian Bach is one big, giant contradiction". Interview with Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 26, 2012.

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• I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

  Drew Barrymore

  Hippie, Eye, Mean

  "Gossip Girls". Interview with Judith Newman, www.marieclaire.com. February 3, 2009.

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• Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

  Annie Besant

  Simple, Men, Evolution

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.744, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hurt, America, Evil

  "Anthony Bourdain’s Off-the-Menu Travel Tips". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Thinking, Trying

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• My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

  Michael Caine

  Scripts, Retired, Ifs

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• Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

  John le Carre

  Double Standard, World, Standards

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• Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

  Nick Cave

  Gun, Damage, West

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• I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Lines, Sides, Endure

  "Cyndi Lauper: This much I know". Interview with Priya Elan, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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• There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Country, Firsts, Infinite

  Interview with Jeff Sweat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I think people are more likely to think it's better to find something new. That mentality has affected all of our thinking.

  Marilyn Yalom

  Thinking, People, Something New

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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