Quotes About Mindset

I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

years. What separates people, Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life. In

The good-to-great companies displayed two distinctive forms of disciplined thought. The first, and the topic of this chapter, is that they infused the entire process with the brutal facts of reality. (The second, which we will discuss in the next chapter, is that they developed a simple, yet deeply insightful, frame of reference for all decisions.) When

Greatness is an inherently dynamic process, not an end point. The moment you think of yourself as great, your slide toward mediocrity will have already begun.

it is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.

Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.

it is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

If you smile when you lose, then you win in life.

But if I am to go, I am to go, and there's the end of it. Karma. She turned her mind off the inevitable to the immediate problem

What is pain to a man? A privilege!

It's all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world.

Still, the unfamiliar power of a new technology was seldom a match for a complacent human mind bent on ignoring it.

The journalist and critic I. F. Stone would call the state of mind that permitted the Pearl Harbor attack "sheer stodgy unimaginative bureaucratic complacency.

I choose to be the person that i want to be

I am happy and able because I allow myself to be happy.

You can tell yourself anything you want, but until you believe what you're telling yourself, you're wasting words.

The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.

It's a different mind-set going into the off-season as a starter. The uncertainty from the team is gone, and your confidence grows.

There's three things that are never good for a consumer mindset: uncertainty certainly, concern, and discordance.

If you think about a business where uncertainty is an anathema, it's around consumer spending, and it's around retail.

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.

Enjoy the pressure. Enjoy the stress. Enjoy being uncomfortable. And don't shy away from it, embrace it.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.