Mentality Quotes - Page 9

• One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this
  whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

  Taylor Swift

  Wish, Trying, Next Steps

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• My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.

  Nina Dobrev

  Enjoy Life, Unhappy, Want

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• I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Ostriches, Sand, Feels

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• There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

  Martha MacIsaac

  East, Canada, Towns

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• I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, People, Black

  "'In my head, this is massive'". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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• We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality -- when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. My father believes that there is no such thing as justice because all his life he has witnessed the tipping of the scales. We must change this widespread mentality by making equality a reality, not just something we read and hear about on the TV and in literature.

  Suzy Kassem

  Country, Father, Believe

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• It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.

  Cara Castronuova

  Hurt, Athlete, Fighting

  "'Biggest Loser': Meet the mystery trainers!". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 18, 2011.

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• While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Rights, Our World

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• Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities.

  Kenny Smith

  Thinking, Years, Intuition

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• Being ready is state of mind... It's a mentality. Do you think your the best in the world? Do you work hard every single day?

  Urijah Faber

  Hard Work, Thinking, Mma

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• I live very strictly by the mentality that what goes on the road, stays on the road. I keep it contained.

  Taylor Momsen

  Goes On

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

  Jay McInerney

  Attention, World, Factory Workers

  "The interview: Jay McInerney" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• I love the mentality that when push comes to shove, simply work harder and the results will come.

  Greg Plitt

  Hard Work, Results, Work Harder

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• What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dull, Thieves, Pretentious

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.72, A&C Black

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• Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.

  Fred Allen

  Stars, Honesty, Integrity

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• I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Commitment, Views

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• I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

  Alain Prost

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• I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Political, Challenges

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• For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a prodigious parallel: just as in antiquity the dysdaimonic personality could not appreciate how his mentality was bound in by his characterological (banausic, doulic) biases, so in modernity the facile or abstractivist rationalist cannot comprehend how his "rationality" merely slavishly subserves his appetites, delusions, preconceptions, ideologies, etc.

  Kenny Smith

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Self

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• Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram
  remain inaccessible to this state of mind.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, America, Mind

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

  Debby Ryan

  Growing Up, Texas, East

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• When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?

  J. Cole

  People, Giving, Mind

  "J Cole graduates to the big leagues". Interview with Michael Saba, www.cnn.com. November 8, 2011.

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• We're all unique and we all have our own talents. If you keep acknowledging your assets and accomplishments , and strive to be the best you can be, you'll let that 'not good enough' mentality go and be on your way to loving yourself, no matter what.

  Jude Bijou

  Unique, Loving Yourself, Accomplishment

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• [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sorry, Iraq, Bosnia

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• If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.

  Kerry Packer

  Guy, One Day, Saws

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