Mentality Quotes

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. (Liu Xiaobo)
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake. View quote
Alain Prost
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. View quote
Teena Marie
As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint. View quote
Jean Piaget
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. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
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. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
America is a young country with an old mentality. View quote
George Santayana
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality. (Chris Cornell)
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.Please, just tell people to use KDE. View quote
Linus Torvalds
To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit. View quote
African Spir
If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality. View quote
Adolf Loos
[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad. View quote
Bashar al-Assad
That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but: "You have to flee." and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality. View quote
Hugo Chávez
Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth. View quote
Marlee Matlin
My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work. View quote
Michael Caine
I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind. View quote
Doyle Brunson
Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get. View quote
Angie Everhart
I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money. (Alain Prost)
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car. View quote
Alain Prost
It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better. View quote
Alain Prost
I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me. View quote
Brian Jordan
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. View quote
Beau Willimon