Quotes About Mindset

Couldn't you play better tennis with the net down?

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

A man is getting old w'en he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

Safety isn't just a slogan, it's a way of life.

Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind.

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.

If you didn't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.

The believing we do something when we do nothing, is the first illusion of tobacco.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

There is a Kretan proverb that says that peace is always "over there", but that is no longer true: it is within our grasp.

if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Faith eliminates fear.

Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

He couldn't control what he felt, but he could certainly control what he DID.

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

Our beliefs have no time to age.

That's the thing about poker. You're not playing your hand. You're playing the other guy's hand.

Pain is inevitable,'" he says. "'Suffering is optional.