J. Cole

When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?

American Musician

Mary J. Blige

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

Wayne Dyer

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.

American Psychologist

Drew Barrymore

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

American Actress

Kanye West

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

American Rapper

The Kid Laroi

You have to have a mentality, you can't fail. You have to do it. That's what's helped me a lot.

Australian Musician

Metta World Peace

Metta World brings championship mentality. That's it. One thing. That's what I do.

American Coach

Mario Monti

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Italian Public Servant

Virgil van Dijk

Winning a trophy is important for your mentality.

Dutch Athlete

Paul Giamatti

I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

American Actor

Mentality can describe a person's particular way of thinking or approach to life.

Personal Thinking

Someone's mentality isn't permanent and can change with new experiences or knowledge.

Not Fixed

Often used with adjectives that describe its nature like 'positive', 'defeatist', or 'progressive'.

Descriptive Adjective

Reflects the collective way of thinking shared by a group or culture.

Group Perspective

Different eras can have distinct mentalities, shaped by historical events.

Historical Mindset

Mentality can be associated with certain cultural practices or beliefs.

Cultural Associations

 slowness has a role to play in medicine I think a lot of people are deeply disillusioned with the kind of quick fix mentality you find in conventional medicine and millions of them around the world are turning to complementary and alternative forms of medicine which tend to tap into sort of slower gentler more

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 policy makers often seem to believe is that they can only affect change in schools by grabbing the reins and taking command of everything and controlling it and that's what we're seeing around the world command and control mentalities and education is not an industrial system it's an organic system it's a

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 you get governments that have an us-versus-them mentality, tiny groups of people making decisions. When you sit in a room with a small group of people making decisions, what do you get? You get groupthink. Everybody has the same worldview, and any view from outside of the group is seen as a threat.

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 don't blame their mindsets, their mentalities, their personality -- look at the work situations. Is it really in their personal interest to cooperate or not, if, when they cooperate, they are individually worse off? Why would they cooperate?

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 whether as fellow women or even just as fellow people, to talk with one another about the abortions that we have. There is a gap. Between what happens in politics and what happens in real life, and in that gap, a battlefield mentality.

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 used to doing is addressing an individual patient and doing everything I can to give that person the greatest chance of living I can't do that here it's a different mentality obviously the world has not seen Ebola outbreaks of

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 It wasn't the entire force, because there were still some who still had that lock-'em-up mentality, but there were other cops who saw the honor in partnering with the community, who saw the responsibility from themselves

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 and we can understand that we have got to reinterpret the zero-sum mentality. Because we were trained to believe that there always are winners and losers, and that your loss is my gain. Well, now that we're in a world

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 Because for years, for centuries, we have been on a consumer extract-and-consume mentality. They way we go about our life and the way that businesses are created is extract, use, discard, extract, use, discard.

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 livestock was vulnerable and helpless we we bred their natural defenses out of them and wolves are intelligent and they had figured that out and so wolves have a mentality really of kill everything you can