Quotes About Mindset

Warriors achieve more than worriers.

You are your greatest asset in the business of your life.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

A mind unconvinced is a mind closed.

Speakership is the ultimate personal development vehicle, and the confidence and focus that comes from being the master of your internal state is possibly its greatest reward.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

As with post-traumatic growth, it's not the scare itself but the subsequent perspective shift that enhances gratitude.

Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose.

How interesting it is that the attitude that ultrarealists choose to adopt in situations where their attitude is the only thing they can control is one of finding meaning in their suffering.

Physical fitness determines where the wall that represents your physical limit is placed. Mental fitness determines how close you are able to get to that limit in competition.

mainly by increasing tolerance for perceived effort and by reducing the amount of effort that is perceived at any given intensity of exercise.

people often choose to expect the worst of an upcoming experience in hopes of creating a more favorable contrast between their expectations and reality.

Perceived effort actually has two layers. The first layer is how the athlete feels. The second layer is how the athlete feels about how she feels. The first layer is strictly physiological, whereas the second is emotional, or affective.

how can fear ruin my experience if I embrace it as an integral part of the experience?

Even most training errors, such as overtraining, originate in the fear of suffering.

In a race, the job of the muscles is to perform. The job of the mind is to cope.

The ultimate compliment for me in my peak training years was being passed on my easy runs by a runner who had a marathon time more than an hour slower than mine. I'd say to myself, "He's wearing himself out today. I'm building myself up.

Positive thinking" cannot be used effectively as a patch or a crutch to the same old self-image. In fact, it is literally impossible to really think positively about a particular situation as long as you hold a negative concept of your "self." And numerous experiments have shown that once the concept of self is changed, other things consistent with the new concept of self are accomplished easily and without strain.

Stop thinking about fun and have it" Homer Simpson

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.

Human beings, as a rule, simply don't accept things that don't fit their worldview.

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."' 'You know Thoreau?