Quotes About Mentality

He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed.

Then he had thought it all beyond her mental grasp and it had been pleasant to explain things to her. Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

You have to have a mentality. This is a business. This ain't hanging out having a good time

Anne Brontë studies the dynamics of group mentality, the mutual reinforcement of male 'club' behaviour.

I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting, and I'm sick of the whole 'my gun will solve all' mentality. (Wulf)

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

Attitude isn't everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life.

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.

If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says

your attitude is not your mood.

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.

I have a lot of respect for every opponent. I don't know if there's just one who I say, 'that guy intimidates me.' When I was young and first came into the league, Ray Lewis was that guy. I was young.

What Conte gave me was hunger, the desire to never give in, the mentality that allows you to go beyond pain to reach your objectives.

I learned that one's mentality can influence how they react to physical obstacles.

I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I've ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react in certain situations.

Real Madrid grow in finals. We have a mentality for this kind of match and at the end you see your friend giving everything and you have to give it too.

I think winning can become a bit of a habit.

You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. —Philippians 2:5

A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.

A mind-set of prosperity debt is really a poverty mentality in disguise.

More than half of the matches are won in the dressing room for him. The guy he's playing against is sitting in the locker-room thinking 'oh my God, I'm going to play Rafa Nadal on clay in five sets, that's going to be painful.'

Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.

The sense of acting being teamwork was a mentality that I took from school: I studied with wonderful people, and I wanted them to be proud of me.