Quotes About Mindset

He could sustain the pain if he saw only weekly performance numbers, instead of updates every minute.

Da mesma forma, quando trabalhava como trader, uma profissão repleta de altas doses de aleatoriedade, com contínuos danos psicológicos que perfuram até as profundezas da alma do indivíduo, eu punha em prática o exercício mental de aceitar, todas as manhãs, que a pior coisa possível já havia acontecido

Ta? duvarlar de?ildir zindan? zindan yapan, Ya da demir parmakl?klar kafesi yaratan.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short, she said calmly. You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

It's funny. When we first started hanging out I didn't want Ashley to think I was a pig, so I was careful not to eat too much in front of her....Now, I don't even think about it.

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

I accept the reality of my problems, but I am not defined by them. My problems are not my essence. My fear, pain, confusion, or mistakes are not my core.

What we make an effort to learn and what we achieve is based, at least in part, on what we think is possible and appropriate to us.

Poor self-esteem not only inhibits thought, it tends to distort it.

when we look for solutions, we grow in self-esteem; when we blame (or alibi), we weaken self-esteem.

The tragedy of many people's lives is that, given a choice between being "right" and having an opportunity to be happy, they invariably choose being "right." That is the one ultimate satisfaction they allow themselves.

Consciousness does not "reflexively" expand in the face of the new and unfamiliar; sometimes we contract it instead.

Conversely, the elimination of irrational fears causes self-esteem to rise. This is one of the basic tasks of therapy.

When we eliminate negatives, we clear the way for the emergence of positives, and when we cultivate positives, negatives often weaken or disappear.

If a self-concept cannot accommodate a given level of success, and if the self-concept does not change, it is predictable that the person will find ways to self-sabotage.

The level of our self-esteem influences how we act, and how we act influences the level of our self-esteem.

Self-concept is destiny. Or, more precisely, it tends to be.

Able to manage change. Self-esteem does not find change frightening, for the reasons stated in the preceding paragraph. Self-esteem flows with reality; self-doubt fights it. Self-esteem speeds up reaction time; self-doubt retards it.

Whereas self-esteem is something we experience, self-acceptance is something we do.

By this I mean that behaviors that generate good self-esteem are also expressions of good self-esteem.

You can no more have too much self-esteem than you can have too much health.

Despite all her misgivings and regrets, she was "determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have . . . learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.