Quotes About Mindset

My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. Because if you can find three good things in any given situation, no matter how dire, I guarantee you'll forget the rotten stuff.

We don't have to allow stereotypical notions or past experiences to immediately alter our personal future.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them.

As the Siamese says: Pea rattles loud in empty head.

We can cite the tribesman who pointed out that the circles in spider webs are sticky, whereas the radii are not. This means, he said, that if you wander from side to side in life you get stuck, but if you move toward its center you don't. p380

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

A death wish is not the same as a willingness to die.

There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt.

When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in-you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we'regoing to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.

But belligerence was a poor aid to concentration, as were three gins and a bottle of wine

Good decisions came less through rational calculation, more from sudden good moods. But so too did some of his worst decisions.

Bad days, good days, 'I'll cut you if you look at me the wrong way' days. I'll take them all.

I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.' I want to make the life of the mind sexy.

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

No matter how good you are, your mentality has got to be right. A lot of young players, that's where they go wrong, and that's what I've always seen when I was growing up - players who are almost there but couldn't quite get there because the mentality wasn't right.

A lot of young players relax a bit when they reach the first-team, thinking they have reached the finish line, but really, it's just the beginning.

One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you're younger than you thought you were.

As you know, all women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.

When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose.

The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.