Quotes About Mindset

The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder.

True proactiveness comes from seeing how we contribute to our own problems. It is a product of our way of thinking, not our emotional state.

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible.

So George talked about the two aspects of every crisis: danger and opportunity. If you have the right mind-set, he said, you can make the crisis work for you. You have the chance to create a new identity for the team that will be even stronger than before.

The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome

What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome.

What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

you create the results in life that you believe you deserve.

There's danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can't find joy where we are, we probably won't find it anywhere.

What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating.

GOD IS NO WHERE GOD IS NOW HERE

But a mood like that, Rick said, you're apt to stay in it, not dial your way out. Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating.

Needless to say, the realization had never penetrated to Fat's mind that Sherri sought out this kind of abode. Her dingy surroundings came as a result of her affliction, not as a cause; she could recreate these conditions wherever she went—which Fat eventually discovered.

Weltanschauung.

You won't understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it's about perception.

You won't understand anything about imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it's about perception.

And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.

Las decisiones no deberían tomarse en función de cómo nos sentimos…, culpables, débiles…