Mentality Quotes - Page 10

• I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.

  Biz Stone

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

  Drew Barrymore

  Hippie, Eye, Mean

  "Gossip Girls". Interview with Judith Newman, www.marieclaire.com. February 3, 2009.

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• Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

  John le Carre

  Double Standard, World, Standards

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• Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Judging

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• I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do.

  La'el Collins

  Kids, Giving, Give Me

  "La'el Collins Q&A: Cowboys Rookie on Murder Investigation and Draft Plummet". Interview with Jason Cole, bleacherreport.com. July 15, 2015.

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• Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.

  will.i.am

  Travel, Europe, Other Worlds

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

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• There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Country, Firsts, Infinite

  Interview with Jeff Sweat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.

  Marlee Matlin

  Office, Hollywood, Different

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• For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things. It's a very mental sport and at the same time can be dramatically physical. But I do admire the mentality of sport more than the physicality because physical performance is much easier to practice than mental performance.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Golf, Practice

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Strong, Believe

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You know, I watch television and there's a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show that you would watch that comes on past 8:00 pm. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child's mentality.

  Seth Rogen

  Children, Dirty, Thinking

  "Seth Rogen's B.O.B. Returns in Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. October 26, 2009.

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• The Internet seems like a safe house for the opposite mentality, for cynics and for jerks and for people who want to lash out. And it's a valid thing. It's a valid forum and I'm not going say that they aren't valid feelings. But it's sad. Considering the potential that something like the Internet, that connects so many people, has for good. I think it's sad that it's used so often for nothing but unfounded, overzealous negativity.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To take pressure off myself, I realize how fortunate I am to be playing a sport for a living. If I take that mentality onto the court, there shouldn't be any pressure because I'm already fortunate to do what I do.

  John Isner

  Sports, Pressure, Realizing

  Source: espn.go.com

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• Competing, to me is just a mentality that says you never back down.

  Shannon Higgins-Cirovski

  Never Back Down, Competing

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• We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even

  Thomas Sankara

  Real, Sacrifice, People

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.

  David Bowie

  Brother, School, Views

  "Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman: William Burroughs Interviews David Bowie". Interview with William Burroughs, www.rollingstone.com. February 28, 1974.

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• My parents joined in the 60s and at that time it was really important - there was a group mentality. I could be pulling this out of my ass, but I feel our generation approaches things on a more individual basis, like we're more personal and don't need to be a part of a group.

  Taraka Larson

  Our Generation, Parent, Important

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• This is the ultimate war of ideas. You're trying to get somebody to change their mind about conservatism, because that's exactly what we're fighting out there. We're fighting an insanely fundamentalist mentality that relies on taking certain things absolutely literally, and they're people on both sides of the conflict doing that. Even now, some people still take the Bible literally, and those are the ones wanting to fight a war against Islam.

  Immortal Technique

  War, Fighting, Ideas

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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• As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to write songs from this time of the day to this time of the day." Almost treat it like a real job. I can't do that. I've never been able to write songs like that. You never know when something creative is going to hit you, or emotion or whatever. You can take it, and turn it into something that makes somebody feel something. I love that about my job.

  Kenny Chesney

  Song, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an "I hate skinny" mentality.

  Daniela Ruah

  Hate, Kids, Skinny

  "Daniela Ruah Officially Checks In". Interview with Julian Sancton, www.esquire.com. February 4, 2015.

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• Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

  Kate Millett

  Depressing, Kindness, Males

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• Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

  e. e. cummings

  Father, Mean, Eye

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• Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.

  Muriel Spark

  People

  Muriel Spark (2001). “All the Stories of Muriel Spark”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

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• The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Knowing, Victory, Doe

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.

  Joan Larkin

  Taken, People, Giving

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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