Quotes About Mindset

The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.

Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur.

People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice - especially when it's to the contrary.

Solitude could be an unwelcome place, but even the unwelcome could become habit.

Being alive... isn't the same as feeling good about it.

He'd stood amidst the ranks more than once, sensing the soldiers alongside him seeking and finding that place in the mind, cold and silent, the place where husbands, fathers, wives and mothers became killers. And practice made it easier, each time. Until it becomes a place you never leave.

A truly successful leader is a reluctant leader. Not one whose every word is greeted with frenzied cheering either—after all, what happens to the mind of such a leader, after such scenes are repeated again and again? A growing certainty, a belief in one's own infallibility, and onward goes the march into disaster.

Being alive, Tattersail concluded as she approached her tent, isn't the same as feeling good about it.

when there is a difference between perception and reality, perception always wins. Behind

Although the role of serendipity is familiar, what's not so well appreciated is how different serendipity is from luck. Serendipity is not just an apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidentally, as my dictionary defines it. Serendipitous discoveries are always made by people in a particular frame of mind, people who are focused and alert because they're searching for something. They just happen to find something else.

Faith can be a wonderful thing if it is balanced by critical thinking.

By this Orwellian logic, happiness is suffering and suffering is happiness.

It is important to remember that, for the most part, people don't join cults. Cults recruit people.

Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

mindset impacts emotion, which alters biology, which increases performance. Thus, it seemed, by tinkering with mindset—using everything from physical to psychological to pharmacological interventions—one could significantly enhance performance.

there is something really optimistic and inspiring about waking up every day as if it's a new day, and not being defined in terms of who you were yesterday

the art critic Crémer reminds Wyatt of Degas's remark "that the artist must approach his work in the same frame of mind in which the criminal commits his deed

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

Doubt leads to thought, thought leads to failure. Now

We are disturbed not by events, but by the views which we take of them.' Is that not true, even of the death of loved ones?

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.