Quotes About Mindset

Whether we experience what happens to us as obstacle and enemy or as teacher and friend depends entirely on our perception of reality. It depends on our relationship with ourselves.

We can make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same.

You may very well have good reasons for resentment, frustration and anger. But that doesn't mean those negative responses are good for you, or that you must choose them.

To get rid of anger you can change the situation or change how you think about the situation.

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

Anger is how you feel. Hate is not letting your anger flow

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Spirit first, technique second.

If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

If you are ready to die, then you are ready to live.

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.

When you teach her that hoe mentality, they accept that as reality.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

Heart and mind overcome all.

Everyone feels fear. What a samurai or warrior is, is what you do when you feel fear.