Mentality Quotes - Page 8

• I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one's going to tear you down if you buy yourself a $300,000 car. They're likely to say: "Well, you probably worked hard for it. Good luck to you."

  Simon Cowell

  Success, Hard Work, Good Luck

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• I might have been too tiny for it, but I wanted to become a professional tennis player. I was a pretty good tennis player as a kid, but ultimately I just don't think that I have that jock mentality needed for sports.

  Robbie Rist

  Sports, Kids, Player

  Source: www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com

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• I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of people's personal lives. That wasn't the focus. But also a lot of celebrities were bullied into revealing this breakup or tragedy or divorce or problem. They started to talk about it and the press just started to talk about people's private lives. That just seems to be the norm.

  Joan Jett

  Breakup, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come 'round

  Steven Morrissey

  Biology, Rounds

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• When I'm unable to see a mistake I made right away. Maybe this is my Taurus mentality, but sometimes I don't see it and I don't see it and then, before you know it, I finally see it, and I'm like, "How the hell did I not see that? It was right in front of me all this time." And I have to look at the wake I left behind, the disappointment. That makes me feel weak.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Disappointment, Mistake, Sometimes

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• So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Answers, Problem

  Alan H. Cohen (2011). “How Good Can It Get?: What I Learned from the Richest Man in the World”, p.33, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).

  E. Fuller Torrey

  Wise, Mistake, Thinking

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• So many companies today, when first confronted by a crisis, go into a bunker mentality. They either say, "No comment," or they lie as a knee-jerk reaction. Neither of these sins, I believe, is generally committed on purpose. Rather, companies often panic when first confronted with a crisis and either say nothing, which looks like they're covering something up, or they speak what they wish was the truth.

  Steven Fink

  Lying, Believe, Wish

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When I started, I had that naïve mentality that you shouldn't have to dress celebrities if your product is good. But when you're an emerging brand and you don't have millions for advertising and marketing, it's a good vehicle to penetrate the demographic that doesn't read GQ - or Interview. But if they see Milo Ventimiglia in one of my leather jackets in Us Weekly, that's a new audience for me.

  Simon Spurr

  Marketing, Advertising, Vehicle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always fear with music that it can be too immediate - too geared toward a "get addicted to it and throw it away" mentality. I get so melancholic once I fall out of love with a piece of music, and I try to make music that I think will at least able to grow with me as I get older.

  Daniel Lopatin

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Escuela Caribe preyed upon parents' fears of secular culture to recruit students. Parents could send their kids to a place where they'd be sheltered from evil secular influences - sex, drugs, alcohol, and a questioning mentality. A place where children would be forced to become good little clones of their parents.

  Julia Scheeres

  Children, Kids, Evil

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.

  Kim Nam-joon

  Believe, Inferiority, Victim Mentality

  Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com

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• I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?

  Daniel Jacobs

  Fighter, Rings, Persons

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Mrs. Clinton is not humbled by support. She has more of the royal queen mentality where you'd better support her. That's your role. She's entitled to your support, and it's matter of fact. There's nothing special about it. It's just you better do it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Queens, Support, Special

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality. Sincerely yours, Albert Einstein.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Humility

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• The way I look at love is you have to follow it, and fall hard, if you fall hard. You have to forget about what everyone else thinks. It has to be an us-against-the-world mentality. You have to make it work by prioritizing it, and by falling in love really fast, without thinking too hard. If I think too hard about a relationship I'll talk myself out of it. I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Love Life, Love Is

  "Taylor Swift in Wonderland" by Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. October 25, 2012.

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• The discriminations that are found in the Muslim majority countries are more Cultural than Islamic.
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  I have always said to the Muslim women, please do not nurture the victim mentality. Stand up for your rights.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Islamic, Rights

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• If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Believe, School

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didn’t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Meaningful, Good Life, Home

  "Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense". Interview with Fran Korten, www.yesmagazine.org. February 26, 2010.

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• A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.

  Bear Grylls

  Self, Quality, Overcoming

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• Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

  Bill Hicks

  Emotional, Years, America

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• Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either.

  Shirley Temple

  Believe, Men, Years

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• I have the mentality that if you come in playing not to get hurt, that's when you're going to get hurt. So I play relentless.

  Adrian Peterson

  Hurt, Play, Nfl

  "Sporting News Conversation: Jim Brown interviews Adrian Peterson". Interview with Jim Brown, www.sportingnews.com. August 3, 2009.

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• 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

  Education, Jobs, Attitude

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• Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has to be strong against bad people. But we must also be able to know and understand the feelings, moods and mentalities of good and bad individuals before we can comprehend when to be strong and when to be gentle.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Strong, Artist, Thinking

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