Quotes About Mindset

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

Sometimes you stumble when you push yourself harder and you're trying to run faster or whatever. We forgive ourselves, pick ourselves up, and keep running. We don't cry and stop running because we skinned our knee.

One very common thing is that often very brilliant children stop working because they're praised so often that it's what they want to live as - brilliant - not as someone who ever makes mistakes. It really stunts their motivation.

A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.

I felt like people who had a lost mindset or who occasionally did stupid things were having a 'donkey' moment, or some of them are permanent donkeys, so I just started calling them donkeys. So when I went to Philly to do my own morning show, that's when I first started doing 'Donkey of the Day.'

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

You should not starve yourself with stupid diets, which I don't believe in anyway.

I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

That's how I was taught. That's how I was raised, to ignore the stupidity, continue on and do what I need to do.

You can pull off anything if you have the right attitude. Being cool is whatever you think it is. Own your style.

I just have to go out there and play the right style of game and believe I can win.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

I don't want to bulk up as that would affect my bowling and running style. I have learnt to accept my body and I handle criticism positively.

I just want to hone in on how I like to fight rather than just keep exploring new styles and new martial arts.

I am not at all stylish. For me, style is a state of mind and individuality.

Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean 'believe' - I mean believe believe believe.

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

If you decide on a goal - for example, 'I'm going to write a novel' or 'I'm going to run a 10K' - your subconscious will formulate the likelihood of that happening based on past experiences.

Confidence is the biggest swag, and that comes with success, which is subjective.