Quotes About Mindset

Creating organizations that value a growth mindset can create contexts in which more people grow into the knowledgeable, visionary, and responsible leaders we need.

If don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" yo may deprive yourself of joy

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't recognize that the perfect is the enemy of the good, you may deprive yourself of joy.

That's why it's especially important to be the people we want to be now, to become more open and expansive while we're able.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

As Andrew Solomon wrote in The Noonday Demon: "The opposite of depression isn't happiness, but vitality.

First you will do, then you will understand. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive. The transfer of words into action, the freedom of it...

There's a biblical saying that translates roughly as "First you will do, then you will understand." Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive. The transfer of words into action, the freedom of it, made me want to carry that action outside the therapy room and into my life.

He wrote, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

I've been watching his future unfold while I stay frozen in the past. But if I live in the present, I'll have to accept the loss of my future.

It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive.

quote from Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

mistaking feeling less for feeling better.

Spend less time on his future, more on my present." Wendell nods,

They may not be able to imagine their depression lifting anytime soon, but they don't need to. Doing something prompts you to do something else, replacing a vicious cycle with a virtuous one. Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

They may not be able to imagine their depression lifting anytime soon, but they don't need to. Doing something prompts you to do something else, replacing a vicious cycle with a virtuous one.

Happiness equals reality minus expectations. Apparently, you can make people happy by delivering bad news and then taking it back

It's not about lowering your standards—it's about maturing and having reasonable expectations.

It's common for people with traumatic histories to expect disaster just around the corner. Instead of leaning into the goodness that comes their way, they become hypervigilant, always waiting for something to go wrong.

Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.

Bloom where you're planted and if you can't do that, plant where you bloom. —Dutch Callahan

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

I'm well aware that I do not belong with the aristocracy." "Yet here you are with an aristocrat." "You and I both know, Your Grace, that marriage is not what you have in mind." His eyes darkened as his gaze traveled from her upswept hair to the toes of her recently polished shoes. "No. Marriage is not what I have in mind.