Quotes About Mentality

The explanatory gap has never been bridged. And the inescapable reason is this: a neural state is not a mental state. The mind is not the brain, though it depends on the material brain for its existence (as far as we know). As the philosopher Colin McGinn says, "The problem with materialism is that it tries to construct the mind out of properties that refuse to add up to mentality.

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

S'enfermer dans une mentalité d'agressé est plus dévastateur encore pour la victime de l'agression elle-même.

Zatvaranje u mentalitet napadnutog još je mnogo razornije nego sam napad.

At training camp, you brainwash yourself into thinking every,day is the same, no weekends or holidays. It's all the same - a work day. You develop a mental state to just work hard and get ready for the fight.

I'm not one of those guys who gets stronger in the weight room.

We were on welfare, and my mom thought you needed the government to survive. 'Don't try to make it on your own, because it won't be enough. The kids won't be fed:' My mom believed that lie. So I've lived with a poverty mentality. But after I got my first job, at a local McDonald's, and I got my first check, I felt such a sense of pride.

Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.

I don't know why, but I don't really get too nervous before games or practices or whatever.

The first few touches of the game, that's kind of like setting the precedent for me.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I think, in general, there are no games in the Premier League where you think, 'Oh, that's an easy one.'

Premier League players are a lot cleverer, but they don't like being roughed up. They're not used to that.

It's important that we have the right mentality because it's not easy to win games in the Premier League.

The Premier League is the top league in the world. It's definitely toughened me up and mentally made me into the person I am now.

Before important games, I don't change my preparation.

I want every player to stay with the mentality and preparation to play together to win.

When I prepare for a game the names are not really important to me.

Once you have an opponent in your mind that you're preparing for, you're working on specifics, and you get guys in to mimic what they do.

You take the experience, and now it's a matter of preparing yourself mentally and physically so that in the future if you find yourself in situations like that, you're able to succeed.

People want to be Lakers. There's just so much pressure, and some guys handle it and some guys can't.

There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

I don't feel pressure going into games.

I've been raised with a decent head on my shoulders.