Quotes About Mindset

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Victory is a thing of the will.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

Sometimes laughin' is all a body can do, child. It's laugh or lose your mind.

ignore the pain, play through it.