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Quotes About Mindset

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain.
~ Vivien Greene
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Perspective is critical to success. Your mind-set is more ingrained than you realize.
~ W. Chan Kim
to win in the future, companies must stop competing with each other. The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.
~ W. Chan Kim
Forget should's and experience is.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
One caution about "the zone": it cannot be controlled by Self 1. I have seen many articles that claim to provide a technique for "playing in the zone every time." Forget it! This is a setup. It's an age-old trap.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
I have found that when players break their habitual patterns, they can greatly extend the limits of their own style and explore subdued aspects of their personality.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Soy mi peor enemigo; normalmente soy yo el que me derroto a mí mismo.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Only then does he have the chance to go beyond the limitations inherent in the various ego trips of Self 1 and to reach a new awareness of his true potential. Competition then becomes an interesting device in which each player, by making his maximum effort to win, gives the other the opportunity he desires to reach new levels of self-awareness.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Competition then becomes an interesting device in which each player, by making his maximum effort to win, gives the other the opportunity he desires to reach new levels of self-awareness.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
I was beginning to learn what all good pros and students of tennis must learn: that images are better than words, showing better than telling, too much instruction worse than none, and that trying often produces negative results. One question perplexed me: What's wrong with trying? What does it mean to try too hard? PLAYING
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Relaxation produces smooth strokes and results from accepting your strokes as they are, even if erratic.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Each player tries his hardest to defeat the other, but in this use of competition it isn't the other person we are defeating; it is simply a matter of overcoming the obstacles he presents.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Somehow the anger had taken me beyond my own preconceived limitations; it took me beyond caution.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Similarly, the score of a tennis match may be an indication of how well I performed or how hard I tried, but it does not define me, nor give me cause to consider myself as something more or less than I was before the match.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
We will become better learners and more independent thinkers.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Daca aveai de gand sa fii ingrijorat, ai nimerit secolul care trebuia!
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Un juicio negativo de los resultados obtenidos hace que intentemos esforzarnos aún más; una evaluación positiva hace que intentemos obligarnos a seguir por ese mismo camino en el siguiente golpe. Tanto el pensamiento positivo como el negativo inhiben la espontaneidad.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
played against such obstacles as lapses in concentration, nervousness, self-doubt and self-condemnation.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
~ W.C. Fields
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
My thoughts were always that that night was the most important game in the world. Everybody in the world was watching that one game. And I had to be the best player on the court and win that game that night. That was my mentality, and it stuck with me all the way through my career.
~ Larry Bird
I hate to lose more than I like to win.
~ Larry Bird
We don't think ourselves into a new way of acting, we act ourselves into a new way of thinking.
~ Larry Bossidy