Word: mindsets
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...word summed up the mindset of those in the American environmental movement, it could be “stop.” They advocate a stop to polluting, a stop to driving, a stop to eating meat, a stop to buying large cars, and a stop to using fossil fuels—in short, a stop to doing everything that American culture demands. They call for a stop through laws or technological standards with little explanation of why it is necessary to stop this behavior...
...biggest differences [between indoor and outdoor track] is the elements,” Saretsky said. “The second biggest factor is the fact that we’re on the road, without the comforts of being at home. It’s a different mindset, but the team responded well...
...writers to read novels and write for publications. Not setting strict goals, however, is much different from not working hard. Being 30-something and still living in your parents’ basement off vague dreams is not the successful result of a broad education. But to retain forever the mindset of being “pre-” something—pre-med, pre-law, pre-finance—has the potential to cut down on spontaneity, to close off options before they’re even considered. Those who define themselves as future members of a profession will...
...fact that we can’t do things—moving runners, throwing strikes, challenging hitters at the right time—that’s a mindset that needs to be changed,” Walsh said...
...have a legal mindset which has pluses and minuses. The advantage is that it enables one to properly formulate aims and helps with decision taking. The disadvantage is that often I speak and explain myself more precisely than is needed. And from this there arises the feeling that before you stands a dry man buttoned up to the neck." - when told he gives the impression of being closed off (Russian state television, translated by the Wall Street Journal...