167 quotes about mentality follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

I had not heard of the band before, but they had good stage presence. They brought a lot of energy but without that rock-star mentality.

Jon Bailey

I wouldn't say it's an easy fix. I think it's a mentality. Once again, I feel like we have to become mentally tougher.

Gail Goestenkors

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

Terri Holmes

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Jennifer Taylor

You know, you lose you're out. So it's time to no matter what, no excuses, to put the ball in the hole. I kind of got that mentality and if I was open, I was going to put it in.

Heather Ezell

Our mentality now? RELIEF! Our streak is over finally, because we refused to continue losing, and great things can happen now.

Ashley Loncarich

He brings energy and excitement to investing by injecting the fast-money trader mentality into the buy-and-hold investor. You have to filter out some of the histrionics, but if you listen carefully, his message is to do your homework.

Scott Rothbort

The closer you get to Christmas, there's this mentality on the part of consumers where they're willing to go out just a little bit more to get the even bigger discounts.

Britt Beemer

I have a wide background in different areas of education and elementary systems. And I have a thinking-outside-of-the-box mentality.

Darren Ballantine

It's because people have adopted a monthly payment mentality, not a whole payment mentality.

Greg Petsch

We hold our destiny in our hands. It's just a case of how tough we are mentality. Now it's us against us them.

Jody Bass

The economic scenario doesn't bode well for commodities. We're still in this Asia mentality.

Bill O'neill

We don't need to have a gold-rush mentality to these resources.

Marlo Raynolds

They know the mentality, the lifestyle that the terrorist organizations want to strike.

Roland Jacquard

We've got the mentality that we expect to win every game we're in. From the standpoint of bragging rights, (that win) was big. It gave us a lot of confidence, but it did not surprise us. We've felt all along we could play with anybody.

Chad Frazier

Our team gets too relaxed when we get up. Our coaches are trying to instill a kill mentality. When we've got somebody down we need to keep them down.

Brandon Meriweather

That's the mentality we have ... and the approach that we're going to take.

Todd France

Finally a mentality of seizing the initiative has gained the upper hand over anxiety.

Thomas Reitz

But I'm really tired of things being reduced to a bottom-line mentality.

Cecile Andrews

The big thing about Bob is that he brings the right mentality to the team. That's the biggest thing that has changed since day one.

Brad Guzan

Their mentality tonight was 'no matter what the score is it's 0-0' which means we've got to fight for every point.

Donna Murphy

They have a mentality that we are one step from making a big play. The coaching staff does a great job of letting guys know that. Do your job and things will happen.

Joel Stoneton

She's probably the only kid I've ever had that didn't have any type of basketball skills at all. But she's just got that mentality that if I can't be the best I'm going to try so that I can be the best.

Darnell Dozier

This is the third-world mentality. Let's build the Taj Majal over here and forget about all these other things over here.

Marilyn Smith

Unfortunately there's this gold rush mentality to bring these products to market.

Jeff Chester

Setting high goals for your staff, and guiding them to think with an out-of-the-box mentality is important.

Lalit Panda

His mentality is very strong. That will help him adjust to MLB and the American life.

Kaz Matsui

The bottom-line mentality for government, unless something forces the issue, is to do things as cheaply as possible.

Paul O'brien

Our mentality this year is if we get on base we have to score. We've had clutch, two-out hitting throughout the year.

Mike Stephens

I didn't think that we could outscore them. I thought we needed defensive mentality.

George Karl

And they play with the mentality of middle linebackers on the offensive line, and they can move.

Tank Anderson

It was positive after yesterday's decline, they bought the financials, they bought everything today, ... The bond market was up and it was just a buy-the-dips type of mentality.

David Jarvis

There's that whole mentality: If you guys dance, you're going to start having babies. We're kind of making it ridiculous.

Gian Pierotti

I don't agree with the cookie-cutter mentality. It's maddening. It's sad and very frustrating.

Terry Gough

That game we won last week was for pride, dignity and the city of New Orleans. That's how we have to finish the season, with that same mentality.

Charles Grant

I think we go on the floor expecting to win. I'm happy with that change of mentality. These girls are fighters and they'll fight until it's all done.

Cathy Alexander

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

There is now a cost control mentality in place that will continue to prevail.

Chris Adams

I guess it's the nurses' mentality: the job's done. They did their job.

Rick Hernandez

For me, whether Clayton was here or not, that's the mentality you've got to take, ... Clayton's still got a lot to prove. I've still got a lot to prove.

Clarence Moore

We only played well when we thought we were desperate and we thought we had a chance to lose. We can't wait and we have to have that mentality from the get go.

John Schweitz

Off the court, it seemed like they were together, like they got along. But on the court it was a different mentality.

Gina Castelli

Andersen has gone into bunker mentality and is acting like a beaten dog.

Art Bowman

Our mentality on offense is we want to impose our will whoever we're facing. We were able to do that.

Daimon Shelton

It's what you call 'Red Bull mentality' and it was molded through time.

Yeng Guiao

After last week, I think our mentality is where it was last year at this time, and even better. We are going to go in and get after it.

Joshua Katcher

You have to deal with what the mob mentality is (the night of a game). Kids want to come to games and have fun, and it is our responsibility to see they have that.

Tom Robinson

There's a bit of a mentality in the industry that if you don't have the land, then you're short of luck.

Wilf Gobert

I had that L.A. mentality, I shredded the garbage and I had picked a house that was isolated.

Lauren Holly

The people we've got now, they're tired of losing. They've got the winning mentality now.

Alex Neal

This game rewards you for playing with huge hearts. I just credit their mentality. They made it very difficult for us to play.

Anson Dorrance

You come out of the All-Star break with a pretty good mentality that the last third of the season is going to be pretty difficult. We've had a good mentality after the break.

Josh Wolff

They have decided to make their business profitable rather than being a cost to the company. The idea is to change the mentality of the mechanic group to become a revenue generating business unit.

Athar Khan

Lauren's job is to go after every ball and put herself in a position to make passes. She has to have the mentality that every ball is hers. She is getting better at that and is a lot more focused now.

Dave Rohrer

There's a buoyant mood. The positive mentality is infiltrating into all areas of the business.

John Donnelly

We came out with a lot of energy. We had confidence that this was our game. We were going to come out here and do whatever it took to win. When we have that mentality and we play together, we're very hard to beat.

Lucious Jordan

Then you have the mentality of people who drive till they qualify.

Tony Polito

We have to take them from that teen-age mentality into adult thinking. It never even occurred to me that we would have to do that.

Niki Woolaver

In order to be number one, you have to train like you're number two. I guess I've always had that mentality without knowing it.

Rudy Morrow

Kids nowadays, they're crazy. Their mentality, they don't think.

Patrick Daugherty

We looked at the stats and came in to talk to Coach about it. He said keep our shoulders up, and we have to have a better mentality about things.

Dion Harris

It becomes a different mentality when you're on church grounds.

Gurpal Samra

My character, my mentality was shaped by the Boys and Girls club.

Amir Johnson

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

Rick Lane

The talent was there, but we had to bring the winning out. Sometimes you can grow accustomed to losing. We had to change that mentality and make believers out of them. Doing that got the ball rolling.

Cedric Drake

It's definitely a different mentality than last year with all of the big hitters we had. We have a lot more speed this year than last year. It was good to see that we're starting to come through.

Nick Herrera

You are made or broken at this level with your veterans as far as the chemistry on your club. Veterans can control the atmosphere and mentality of your team, and we were fortunate this year to have those guys.

Aaron Johnson

The mentality and grandeur that this club (Real Madrid) has is different to the rest.

Roberto Carlos

Our society's culture and mentality have got to change, away from the idea that all average workers are second-class citizens.

Raul Vera

This year's team is a new team. But that is not the mentality our competitors will have (against) us.

Dave Mills

Yes, that was a shock to us. But I'm very happy with how we performed under those conditions. Sometimes when it's like that from the start it can effect the athletes' mentality. But they didn't let it effect them.

Rhonda Faehn

A big deal with cross country is the mental game. If you begin to doubt yourself, you will fail. One thing I would like to improve is my mentality. I need to tell myself I can do it otherwise I won't do well.

Kirsten Anthony

We are moving the company away from its traditional mentality and approach.

Abhi Talwalkar

She has a great mentality. You have to think, 'That's my ball' when it goes up. Even if you have to take it away from your own teammate.

Haywood Boston

We don't have a winner's mentality. We've lost so many close games. If you win those games, then when it gets down to the end, you know what to do to tie it, or hold on to the lead. We lack that experience.

Geno Parrish

We came out with the right mentality. Even though they're a I-AA team, we came out with respect for them. We came out with a game plan, executed and got the job done.

Terry Caulley

If it's competition, we take it seriously. Whether they're good or bad teams, you have to stay with the same mentality.

Shawn Mowry

I think everyone expected us to crack up when we play the Old Firm. This shows the mentality that we have at Hearts.

Paul Hartley

If you have a championship mentality, then you have to go into hostile environments and win on the road. It's just the way it is.

Jason Elam

Our job is to find solutions and we think we've addressed having a stronger mentality and a stronger focus, because it hasn't been good the last few games. We have been way too soft in our mentality.

Seth Roland

He's been a tough kid all his life. He's got linebacker mentality. He threw a great game and dominated a good team on the road.

Tony Robichaux

We never really have grown out of the mentality of the 1970s.

Dennis O'brien

It's a very different mentality than it used to be.

Craig Balsam

Our mentality is just to keep going. We're working hard day in and day out. Everybody has got that mentality to just be doing these things on a daily basis.

Nick Meyer

It's not experience that's holding us back. I think we're holding ourselves back. We just have to get that killer mentality at the end of the game.

Antwi Atuahene

My mentality is I ball until I fall. I'll go out there next week and whatever happens to it happens to it, but we have to get this straightened out so I definitely have to be out there.

Keith Bulluck

This lawsuit abuse mentality hurts all Floridians.

Slade O'brien

Wall Street's mentality is that they don't expect much from 'Chicken Little.

Michael Nathanson

This gives you an idea of the mentality going on inside this bank.

Adrian Pilz

The Germans have a different consumption mentality: They don't get into debt.

Hubertus Pellengahr

It was a fun game. A great atmosphere. This team has a great mentality about defending its home court.

Coleman Smith

I didn't change anything - I went out there with the same mentality (that inning).

Bryan Henry

We still have to make sound business decisions, But if this area doesn't come back to life, it'll be because of that mentality.

Amrit Gill

We can't just go there and play around. We have to go there with the mentality that we have to win.

Mariano Rivera

We've done a good job taking it one game at a time. My mentality has worn off on the kids. If you overlook anybody it will hurt you.

Justin Abnee

We've been working on finishing. Rob keeps stressing that it's a mentality.

Ann Barney

It changes your mentality and mind-set a little bit, ... But I prepare the same, whether I'm the backup or I'm going to play a lot. That's my role.

Matt Schaub

They know they're good, they think they're good, and they have that mentality to win. That right there will put a team over the top. A team that brings that attitude is going to win the game.

Sean Muldowney

Leave, go ahead and go on out, we don't need that kind of a spirit or mentality and a narrowness on that kind of commission. I'm glad they're gone.

Rev. Michael Pfleger

Logan kind of had a closer mentality. Now, he's extending that mindset over seven innings.

Fred Stoots

Everything goes through Tyler. Tyler brings almost a coach-like mentality to the court. He's just a great competitor. He loves being in the heat of the battle more than any other player I've coached.

Alan Knipe

We have to have the mentality that we can beat anyone.

Stefanie Stone

Her senior leadership has really made a difference. She has the mentality that she's going to get her points. She's going to do what she has to.

Jeff Gaucher

He has the mentality. He's been a closer his entire career, and nothing affects him a whole lot. But he's got good pitches. He's got the tools to make it happen and he's got the mentality that he fits in.

Marc Gustafson

He?s one of the most driven people I know. But out of the four of us in the secondary, I would consider him the clown of the group. He always has something to lighten the mood, but he knows when to change that mentality and get serious about the game.

Calvin Lowry

In the context of war, especially a chaotic war, there is the inevitable targeting of marginal groups. There is a free-roaming sense of violence and a mob mentality.

Paula Ettelbrick

Brittany knows right now that we're going to have to have her throw a lot of innings. Brittany has that mentality, so I think she's going to be OK.

Kathy Bocock

This kind of mentality makes you very strong.

Amir Mohebian

I tell my staff, You can't be a victim. I don't accept the victim mentality.

Susan Powers

It's kind of a seed to table mentality. The little ones just love it. They learn sharing and community.

Sue Mullins

[?] For me, it has to be mentality, ... We have to go into games with the mentality that we're not going to give away goals in the first 15 minutes. When you give away goals in the first 15 minutes of a game, you're going to find it tough to get results.

Jason Kreis

That was a big boost to the mentality of our guys, especially Nick Helmer, our other forward.

Ryan Estabrook

There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.

Jeff Foxworthy

Investor psychology is so fragile that there would be a what-does-the-Fed-see that-we-don't mentality. I don't think the market would benefit. The Fed would be best served by holding onto their ammunition to use if they have to.

Kevin Flanagan

This is a big change for PTI and the Triad. We know a lot of people feel they need to drive to Raleigh-Durham to get a good fare and we're hoping to change that mentality.

Travis Christ

We've got a lot of bumps and bruises in the lineup. I've got to have the mentality to hold up my end when we're having a tough time in our [defensive] zone.

Cam Ward

That burns us up inside. That was a huge lead to have over a team. Right now we have the mentality to come out in the second half and just leave it on the line.

Tarence Kinsey

I tell my girls don't talk it, walk it. Talk is nice but we have to get it done on the floor. We use that mentality and it is how we approach the game.

Dean Serbus

It created a 'bunker mentality' among consumers, who are more centered around the home, shopping less often, and spending less freely.

Daniel Barry

My mentality is just a little different now, because in high school I had to do a lot of scoring, ... But now I can pass the ball to my teammates and get them involved more.

Mario Chalmers

We just can't keep saying here's a little bit more, here's a little bit more. It's a mentality at this point that prevents developers from always being as accurate or frugal as they can be, knowing there's always the fallout of city funds.

Tim Little

That mentality of giving these kids that experience, even though we didn't fair as well as we wanted to in non-conference, was everything that we needed to reach our goals in the conference.

Amber Daulbaugh

Once the S&P broke through that, it was kind of a herd mentality: One goes, they all go.

Ryan Larson

He has a lot of pride playing defense and he just chased him around all night long. ..He?s got that mentality.

Rob Mileski

Most companies already have manufacturing in China, and you don't want all your eggs in one basket. That's the strategic mentality we're seeing more often than not across industries.

Frederick Burke

We hope they will be able to run like that in every meet. We want to close the gap between No. 1 and No. 8. We hope to get into the team pack mentality.

Sue Wright

There is a real difference in mentality. Consumers from poorer European countries are more cautious and tend to save more and borrow less.

Michael Penn

When we play them, we have to change. We have to have the mentality to try and shorten the game. This is the one game that we try to play differently.

Melissa Smart

We need to keep going down the same road of improving our short game. To really stay competitive, we need to keep the attacking mentality.

Christie Martens

It is important to fully acknowledge that the current anti-doping programs are ineffective and this fact has contributed to the use-or-lose mentality that exists today.

Victor Conte

We're going into it with the mentality that we can beat Duke. They're a great team and a great program, but they can be beat.

Omar Williams

It's not one guy getting more praise than another. That mentality keeps the defense together.

Matthew Rice

He's had a closer mentality in his preparation even when he was a middle setup guy.

Bob Apodaca

There's a casino gambling mentality among investors today. I think it's a disservice to the efficiency of the capital markets.

Scott Black

I hate that not-in-my-backyard mentality, but this is America's backyard, ... With one hazard, you could destroy it.

Carolyn Mccormick

We're an automobile town. I think that people know the bus is out there, but they just have a real car mentality.

Sharon Fearey

It's about bottom line and effectiveness, ... Youngstown needs that mentality.

Jay Williams

We go in 13-6 at halftime and it might be a different mentality. Letting them score in the last two minutes in the first half, it gave them some momentum.

Andy Thomas

God is not interested in our small mentality and our foolish perceptions. God is interested in the people of this nation.

Pastor Ferdinand Nicholls

These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.

Aytekin Sir

You have to go in there with a bad-boy mentality.

Ray Mickens

If the system's going to do what it wants with their grades, why should they even study? That's what their mentality is.

Pam Taylor

They're just looking for money. The children just have the mentality that they can take from me.

Lorenzo Bernard Lockett

Nate is fairly well known by a lot of the other players. So we are hoping that kids will say, 'If he's playing there, maybe I can.' Kind of the herd mentality.

Steve Levesque

We really wanted to do a better job in the second half. This team made me nervous and I felt that we had to come out with the mentality that we were down.

Cathy Nixon

It will take that negative 'we're starving your children to death' mentality away.

Gene Krebs

It's the mentality of our school as a whole. It's a great community, and everybody wants to pitch in.

Lance Rutledge

He's a shooter with that gunslinger mentality. That was a big shot to put us up four, but he's done that all year for us.

Jim Sayre

We really have to have a junkyard dog mentality and that's the way we have to play. I want us to be a very disciplined, committed, hard-working team and in your face.

Brent Sutter

Their level of loyalty pretty much exists to the next thing they want to do. I think that bodes well to getting out of this corporate beer mentality.

Paul Gatza

In the past, I don't think it would have affected us that way. We expected to win. We weren't going in there just expecting to compete. I think that really showed how the mentality has changed here.

Darrell Brooks

It changed the (team's) mentality. He brought a toughness to us.

Jason Hart

The main thing is his mentality and his aggressiveness. That old linebacker comes in handy behind the plate.

Larry Hays

It feels like we've got a guy who understands what we go through, who's walked to class the same way we do, who understands the mentality in this town.

Tyler Palko

The mentality of a pit bull.

Phil Jackson

We have just changed our mentality a little bit. I think we started focusing a little more.

Sarah Mesuch

That was huge for them. If we had won that draw it could have changed the whole mentality of the game. If you don't have the ball you can't do the things you need to. They were able to capitalize on that and instead of it being a tie game, they went up by two.

Mary Key

When I came in here he was very instrumental in teaching me patience and understanding the game. He did that constantly and laid back sometimes when I was having a rough day. He had that big-brother mentality.

Steve Smith

A mentality has set in that you should never get help with your finances. But some people would benefit.

Scott Cooley

The 'warring tribes' mentality isn't working for them.

Mark Mckechnie

It wasn't a street-fighting contest, but it was a street-fighting mentality. And frankly, that's why the Brands brothers had a bad rap. Nobody could handle the level we competed at. Nobody -- except for the people that was on our side.

Tom Brands

It was amazing. You guys show that they can be a foot taller, and it doesn't matter. It's the mentality.

Joe Sigrist

That kind of tears a team's mentality and confidence down. But so far this year I haven't seen that.

Erik Poggi

Everyone was jacked up. Everybody was ready to give a championship mentality.

Emily Westerberg

A normal relation between the two countries instead of this Cold War mentality.

Elizardo Sanchez

We still have to improve our conditioning, strategy and mentality. The improvement really will not stop until the end of the year.

Efe Ustundag