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

• Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• '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

• The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.

  

  Alice Paul

• My inspiration was initially still disco from when I lived in New York, so I was into the songs anyway, then Detroit had an influence on me and brought a more experimental, instrumental vibe to my own stuff back in those days.

  

  Kevin Saunderson
  • Inspiration
  • Influence
  • Disco

• With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Respect
  • Mistake
  • Attitude

• I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • English

• So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good - in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn't make much money, but you had a lot of fun.

  

  Little Milton
  • Good
  • Men
  • Real

• Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

  

  Walter Dill Scott
  • Attitude
  • Capacity
  • Mental