Mentality Quotes

• A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Ideas
  • Interest
  • Groups

• If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.

  

  Arthur Carhart
  • Thinking
  • Perspective
  • Wilderness

• It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Running
  • Humans
  • Herd

• We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • World
  • Stupid
  • Mentality

• There is a bias; there is a Washington mentality.

  

  Sean Spicer
  • Washington
  • Mentality
  • Bias

• Turkey has put up a fight against the powerful nations of the world. The crusader mentality attacked us abroad. Inside, their lackeys attacked us. We didn't succumb. As a nation, we stood strong.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Nation
  • Turkey
  • Succumb

• I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.

  

  M.C. Brockert
  • Different
  • Grandmother
  • Catering

• Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Fascist

• You don't have the same mentality as you did five years ago - even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • People
  • Changing
  • Deserves

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

  

  Andrea Zittel
  • Mentality
  • Scratch
  • Frontier

• When you teach her that hoe mentality, they accept that as reality.

  

  Antonio Hardy
  • Reality
  • Teach
  • Mentality

• My mom is a script supervisor. It's like the family business. It never had that feeling of entertainment. It was always more like, "Eh, it's just a movie," with that crew mentality, which is, "We've done it before and we can do it again."

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Family
  • Done
  • Business

• You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Change

• I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Good
  • Forever
  • Risk

• I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.

  

  Scottie Pippen
  • Player
  • Mentality

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

  

  Jessica Livingston
  • People
  • Investors
  • Mentality

• 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
  • World
  • Travel
  • Marketing

• Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Sports
  • Hip Hop
  • Mentality

• Most people our age have the whole "dating game" [mentality] of trying to sell yourself or be strategic.

  

  Gerard Horan
  • People
  • Games
  • Dating

• I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality.

  

  Nina Jacobson
  • Career
  • Perspectives
  • Buyer

• Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Running
  • Pain
  • Agrees

• I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She Maura Isles came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could have chosen to do a lot of other things, and has this uber-feminine, modern woman mentality, but works this job.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Modern
  • Profession
  • Chosen

• Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

  

  Nonito Donaire
  • Warrior
  • Mentality
  • Adopted

• There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

  

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Real
  • Hollywood
  • Grounded

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