Walter Dill Scott Quotes

Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

Walter Dill Scott

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• My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • God
  • Society
  • Alive

• I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • World
  • Kids
  • Focus

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Without
  • Fat
  • Sunglasses

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• 'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.

  

  T-Pain
  • Mind
  • State
  • Appearance

• As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Man
  • Fine
  • Sounds

• When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Different
  • Team
  • Rest

• In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Government
  • Difficult

• A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Paris

• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Great
  • Woman
  • Better

• Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

  

  Edward Albee
  • People
  • Character
  • Personality

• I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.

  

  Margaret Mead

• As far as I can see, this is a system that has enriched multiple companies and that pays and fires teachers with a cattle birthing formula, confuses children with talking pineapples, and has the same kind of rules regarding transparency as Brad Pitt had for Fight Club.

  

  John Oliver
  • Children

• Our universities produced lawyers and doctors for the old social system, but did not create enough agricultural extension teachers, agronomists, chemists, or physicists. In fact, we do not even have mathematicians.

  

  Che Guevara

• The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.

  

  Martin Delany
  • People
  • Policy
  • Capacity

• Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.

  

  George Will
  • Reality
  • Attitude
  • Perception

• Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Color
  • Condition
  • Civilized

• Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

  

  Walter Dill Scott
  • Attitude
  • Capacity
  • Mental