Quotes About Mindset

From his book "Was That Me? Turning Points in my Life." A quote from my father, "The easiest person to fool is yourself."

that logic and reason, it turns out, are not at the center of our decision-making processes.

Roxy Music became, as Bryan Ferry would observe in 1975, 'above all … a state of mind'.

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.

Offense is in the mind of the offended.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

It's a lesson in life—don't look back, you'll trip over.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

One of the things that haunts me as an artist is the way we project so much onto the world. I'm down on my luck, and the world looks a wretched place. I'm feeling prosperous, so I think the whole international scene is too. I'm unhappy, so I look around and all I see is unhappiness. I buy a certain brand of car, and suddenly I notice them everywhere. Or I'm in love and all I see is love, the whole world in love.

Prepare yourself. This means making a mental break from your old job and preparing to take charge in the new one. Perhaps

To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Peace: "The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.

Most salespeople think that selling is "closing." It isn't. Selling is opening.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse

Once established, the level of "self" rarely changes unless a person makes a structured and long-term effort to change it.

Four studies, all reported in the last five years, have found what many suspected all along: that a positive attitude makes a large difference in how long and how well you live.

You would rather think about the good than do it.

Stupidity, selfishness and good health are the three prerequisites of happiness, though if stupidity is lacking the others are useless.

Isn't it amazing in life how one minute you are devastated by some news, but then, a few seconds later, your desperate need to survive at any price kicks in and you can find some way to turn it around in your head?

The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.

People seem to be better able to deal with coming up short on positive goals than negative ones. So framing your subgoals as things you want to accomplish, rather than avoid, can help you escape the fatalistic, black-and-white thinking that can subvert your longer-term goals.

Maybe it's time we stop blaming genetics and focus on the more than 70 percent that is directly under our control.

Maybe it's time we stop blaming genetics and focus on the more than 70 percent that is directly under our control.53 We have the power.

Note that to break a bad habit or create a new one, we have to select a new action (eat an apple) rather than just give up an existing behavior (don't eat potato chips).3798 To activate the habit-forming mechanism, you likely need a new alternative response, rather than a nonresponse.