Mentality Quotes - Page 6

• Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  Compassion, Race, Law

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

  Tom Thibodeau

  Basketball, Nba, Good Times

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• The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Rainbow, Choices

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing.

  Philip Alston

  Risk, Audio, Aviation

  "Drone warfare: life on the new frontline" by Chris Woods, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

  Jessica Livingston

  People, Investing, Want

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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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• I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

  Stuart Pearce

  Jobs, Long, Long Time

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• If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.

  Matt Dillahunty

  Blow, People, Forgive Me

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• Another factor is the education and culture in which you grow up. I didn't grow up in the culture of victory, where you are expected to be or have to be, the best. It was not at all like that in my family. Tennis was really a hobby. If it led to something, great. If not, there were other things in life. I think that was something I was missing at some points in my career, because when I see Hingis or the Williamses, you see how they were educated for this: to win, to be the best, a bit the American mentality. Number one. Number one. Number one. I didn't have this.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Growing Up, Thinking, Winning

  "For Mauresmo, another try at the title that means most to her". Interview with Christopher Clarey, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 2006.

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• I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Stay Positive, Comeback

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• What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago – that is the industrial paradigm exceeding its efficiency. So these Latin squiggly words that we're learning to say – bovine spongiform encephalopathy – are nature's language screaming to us: ENOUGH! And the question then is: what will it take for us to listen? And my contention is that Wall Street is still wearing conquistador mentality and uniforms, and nobody is listening to the pleadings of nature saying: 'Enough.'

  Joel Salatin

  Wall, Latin, Years

  "Interview: Joel Salatin" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality.
  Somebody else will not fix things.
  Somebody else will not make me healthy.
  Somebody else will not make me happy.
  These things are my responsibility.
  Not the neighbor’s,
  not the government’s,
  not the church or the civic club.

  Joel Salatin

  Responsibility, Government, Healthy

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• A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.

  Joel Salatin

  Pigs, Views, Other Cultures

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• If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Men, Care

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.35, Penguin

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• Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

  Varg Vikernes

  Sheep, Self, Expression

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• The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

  Scott Brooks

  Nba, Needs

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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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• We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

  Joey Skaggs

  Bills, Tribes, Function

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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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• I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.

  Andrea Zittel

  Ideas, Scratches, Figures

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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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• 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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• I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

  Rosanne Cash

  Real, Thinking, Get Better

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• If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jobs, Done, Benefits

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.28, Multnomah

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• A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

  Ip Chun

  Art, Overcoming, Students

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