Quotes About Mindset

Remember - try to stay focused on progress, not perfection.

Your essential purpose is to become the-best-version-of-yourself. Plant that one idea at the center of your life. Base every decision upon your essential purpose. Make every choice with your essential purpose in mind. Place this one idea at the center of your inner dialogue and you will very quickly understand why ideas change the world. Everything makes sense in relation to our essential purpose, especially relationships.

By doing exactly the same things we did yesterday, but with a new mind-set, we are able to inject incredible meaning into the most mundane things—

Our lives change when our habits change. Resistance hates good, strong, positive habits in your life.

The power of framestorming lies in its ability to engage our SLOW thinking in a manner that feels like FAST thinking. At the same time, it turns problems into puzzles. When we view something as a problem, we naturally engage in Leaping to solutions. When something is a puzzle, though, we naturally slow down a bit: we learn at an early age when doing puzzles that we need to get the corners and edges down first. Getting the puzzle frame right is half the battle!

relying on slack resources or ignoring constraints not only stifles creative thinking, but also breeds Overthinking.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character.

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it. A

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

El dolor es inevitable, el sufrimiento es opcional.

To change one's life is not to change outer circumstances: it is to change one's reactions.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

the most important thing to be successful is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will

You might be an intelligent person, but once you let someone else filter the world for you, you have no way to critically analyze what you're hearing. At best, absolute best case scenario, if they blatantly contradict themselves, you can spot that. But if they take basic care to maintain an internal logical consistency, which they all do, you've got nothing. You've delegated the ability to make up your mind.

Optimism is the elixir of life for the weak.

In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity...in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.

A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are – terrified at ourselves in our nakedness and naturalness; it has degraded us so that we deem ourselves depraved by nature, born devils.

Think doubt and fail, think victory and succeed

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.