#mentality

The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president. ↗

— Valentina Matviyenko

#demands #lord #mentality #president #russian

I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#black #combat #experienced #heights #helped

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue. ↗

— Leonora Carrington

#form #sentimentality

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality. ↗

— Mario Monti

#government #help #hope #i #i hope that

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood. ↗

— Kool Moe Dee

#because #bronx #brooklyn #day #different

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#biggest #confidence #conscience #control #critic

People tend to take things spoken as a joke seriously and things spoken seriously as a joke... ↗

— Ram Mohan

#joke #mentality #people #perception #speak

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#mentality #vision #art

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. ↗

— James Baldwin

#admire #america #because #been #his

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. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#breakthrough #came #city #else #every