Word: mindset
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...anyone can, and indeed should, adopt a similar mindset. Here we are, at the most self-important of all learning institutions. Why not have a self-important inner monologue about one’s familial destiny...
...Barroso says. "Nostalgia is not the most helpful attitude." Europe's current stasis is deceptive, he suggests, as deep transformations following the E.U.'s 2004 enlargement churn beneath the surface. "The change from 15 to 25 countries creates new circumstances, and it takes some time to adjust the mindset of the people. We're not only larger but more diverse. We have to come of age." Last year there was "some turbulence," Barroso concedes, as the referendums gave impetus to an anti-E.U. "populism." This year, he is convinced, pragmatism will prevail. "It's easy to put the blame...
When I showed him a draft of this speech, outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan advised me that such bleak language would send the stock market careening into a plunge worse than the dive following 9/11. And that, my fellow Americans, is the mindset that I wish to change with this speech. America is not defined by its invincibility, nor should it be. Vulnerability is not the trait that will destroy America; rather, the danger comes from purposeful blindness and denial...
...think it’s really kind of offensive, the attitude that getting married at this age is something people do because they don’t want to be alone,” she says. “At Harvard a lot of women get stuck in the mindset that the reason they don’t want to get married early or become involved in serious relationships is because they think it will interfere with their own ambitions in life. But I think if you are lucky enough, being engaged or married is something that helps encourage those...
...TIME: Do they know that they have to do more than make the Communist Party a broad church, that there's a mindset they have to change? LEE: Oh yeah, they're not stupid. Talking to them, I do not think that they believe their grandchildren will live under this system unchanged. They allowed the book Studying in America by Qian Ning, son of [former vice premier] Qian Qichen, to be published. He was working at the People's Daily, went to the University of Michigan on a scholarship immediately after Tiananmen, and he wrote the book three or four...