Mentality Quotes - Page 6

• Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

  Angie Everhart

  East, Midwest, Coast

  "Angie Everhart...she's on fire". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

  Mary Webb

  Marriage, Passion, Fire

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• The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.

  Vince Gill

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

  Alan Lightman

  Believe, Reflection, Thinking

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• There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

  Jay McInerney

  Attention, World, Factory Workers

  "The interview: Jay McInerney" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sorry, Iraq, Bosnia

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• We're all unique and we all have our own talents. If you keep acknowledging your assets and accomplishments , and strive to be the best you can be, you'll let that 'not good enough' mentality go and be on your way to loving yourself, no matter what.

  Jude Bijou

  Unique, Loving Yourself, Accomplishment

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• When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?

  J. Cole

  People, Giving, Mind

  "J Cole graduates to the big leagues". Interview with Michael Saba, www.cnn.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

  Debby Ryan

  Growing Up, Texas, East

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• I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do.

  Christopher Bond

  Believe, Thinking, Progress

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• I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

  Gina Carano

  Beautiful, Girl, Skinny

  "What MMA Hottie Gina Carano Wants in a Man". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. January 19, 2012.

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• People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Punishment, People

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• Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

  Hedi Slimane

  Fashion, Men, Fabric

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• I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.

  Edward Ruscha

  Dark, California, Taught

  "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.

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• My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they're only, like, 20. I'm the opposite of that.

  Kay Panabaker

  Teenager, Opposites, High School

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

  Candace Parker

  Thinking, Games, Injured

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• Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

  Alain Prost

  Mistake, Thinking, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

  Alain Prost

  Team, People, Helping

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love doing it [hosting the Oscars] because I love the danger of it and you have to come through and think on your feet. That's why that show, no matter who hosts it, it really should be a fast-thinking comedian who is really quick on their feet that can handle situations that happen, or somebody with that kind of mentality that can capitalize on something.

  Billy Crystal

  Thinking, Feet, Comedian

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.

  Mahershala Ali

  Curiosity, Students, Approach

  "Mahershala Ali: the 'free state of Jones'". Interview with Sam Williams, www.eurweb.com. June 24, 2016.

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• If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.

  Emmet Fox

  Motivational, Encouragement, Character

  Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco

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• Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

  Frank Zappa

  Peanuts

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• West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

  Melanie Fiona

  Perfect, Balance, West

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• I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

  Neko Case

  Dog, Song, Real

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• Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram
  remain inaccessible to this state of mind.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, America, Mind

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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