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Quotes About Mentality

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
A future with automation is the equivalent as the past with primitive technology. It is the abstract factor that will ruin the utmost ambitions of our families' generations. To combat this 'societal plague' is to combat laziness, similar to defending against our negative mentality.
~ Anonymous
People say a lot of things about LeBron, but he just keeps having a good mentality and grinding. That's what I try to do, proving people wrong by what I do on the court.
~ Ben Simmons
I've been in a lot of big fights, so I can't psyche myself out, like, 'Oh, this is a big fight.'
~ Danny Garcia
I think Dele Alli is one who is psychologically strong.
~ Adam Lallana
People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
~ Takeru Kobayashi
That's part of Jurgen Klopp's job, is to psychologically find out how to get his players playing.
~ Steve Nicol
Part of my success was rooted in psychology.
~ Ricky Steamboat
Everyone says Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, but I would have love to have played with Luka Modric. I think he's an incredible player, really strong mentally and a pure footballer.
~ Gennaro Gattuso
I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.
~ Maksim Chmerkovskiy
If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around the gym. I once said, 'Am I on a wrestling team or a damn track team?' That resulted in me running for the entire practice. It gives you a certain mentality.
~ Rashad Evans
I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.
~ Canelo Alvarez
For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.
~ Ismail Kadare
When guys get competitive and get under each other's skin, it brings you out more. Some people fold.
~ Jamal Murray
Ben Stokes, for example, is someone who plays better when he is a bit aggressive - and that's something you don't want to take away from him.
~ James Anderson
Martial arts was founded on the spirit that it's not only a sport, but a way of life.
~ B. J. Penn
We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.
~ Didier Deschamps
I don't really think of records beforehand. I don't want them to freak me out.
~ Mary Cain
One thing when I started playing in the league, I saw that a lot of guys are friendly. It's OK to be friendly, especially off the court. But on the court, I want to dominate.
~ Joel Embiid
She was certainly now obsessing him! Beyond bearing or belief. His whole being was overwhelmed by her... by her mentality, really. For of course the physical resemblance of the lance-corporal was mere subterfuge. Lance-corporals do not resemble young ladies.
~ Ford Madox Ford
It was the mentality that obsessed him: the exact mind, the impatience of solecisms and facile generalizations!… A queer catalogue of the charms of one's lady love!… But he wanted to hear her say: "Oh, chuck it, Edith Ethel!" when Edith Ethel Duchemin, now of course Lady Macmaster, quoted some of the opinions expressed in Macmaster's critical monograph about the late Mr Rossetti… How very late now!
~ Ford Madox Ford
Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.
~ Frank Herbert
First Law of Mentat at her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
~ Frank Herbert