Sentence examples for running mentality from inspiring English sources

"If you come up here with the running mentality, it's going to be tough to survive because the defenses are too complicated and fast," Doug Williams said by telephone from the Tampa Bay front office, where the former Buccaneers and Redskins quarterback and the first African-American to start (and win) the Super Bowl serves as a personnel executive.

"The 'hit the ground running' mentality will instantly burn you out," he explained.

According to Shapiro and Glebbeek, in 1969 there was little confidence in the staying power of rock stars; it was assumed that their careers were going to be short, and industry insiders operated under a "take the money and run" mentality.

"That home-run mentality will kill us, because we'd never move forward.

"A part of saving a place like Berkeley is preventing a bank-run mentality from developing within the university".

In "The Golden Revolving Door" (editorial, June 20), you say that the Department of Homeland Security has succeeded in "creating a giant, expensive crop of government-trained consultants and lobbyists" and that "the worst effect of this kind of take-the-money-and-run mentality is on the people left behind".

His view contrasts markedly with Nic Brisbourne, partner at DFJEsprit, who says on his blog recently that "Adopting a home-run mentality is the best way forward".

"There's an English mentality running through the food, but it's not that stodgy thing that you think of with English food".

I think that mentality runs through him, whether it's race or sexual orientation.

We believe this list mentality runs contrary to curriculum philosophy and consider that many seminal texts are ignored".

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