“Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity”

—  Walter Dill Scott

Attributed to Walter Dill Scott in: ‎Sterling W. Sill Benson (1974). That ye might have life. p. 274

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President of Northwestern university and psychologist 1869–1955

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