Quotes About Mindset

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

I think, at some level, if we concentrate on problems as opposed to solutions, then you just create more problems.

When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.

Bemoaning your fate is not going to solve the problem.

Money doesn't solve anything.

The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.

Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.

We're never going to solve weight cutting, we need to just get past that. People are always going to cut weight.

A dramatic spending increase to fund the SEC and the CFTC, as envisioned by the authors of the Dodd-Frank legislation, would further the mindset that our nation's problems can be solved with more spending, not more efficiency.

Men - not all men but a good majority of the ones I have known and worked with - tend to think of difficult situations in their lives as problems that need to be solved.

Engineers have a certain mindset of how they approach problem solving. That's basically what engineers are: problem solvers. You identify the problem. Then you design a process to solve the problem. Then you execute the process and repeat it over and over until you get it right.

If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Some people get knocked down and they have a hard time getting back up. But when your mind is right and you have a goal and you're trying to achieve that goal, nothing can deter you from that.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

Sometimes you have to work through some things, and the mental side of kicking is definitely there.

For sure, some things have changed with the way I feel about things, like my mindset and everything. But you always learn every year about your mindset and what works for you.

Obviously, maturity helps, knowing that you definitely have to make every day a good day. If not, somebody else is out there putting in the work.

If I'm making consistent contact, even if they're outs or right at somebody, if I'm just making consistent contact, I'm happy.