Quotes About Mindset

Just because you're born with bad genes doesn't mean you can't effectively turn them off.

Samuel McDermott or not, I was Ian McDermott, and the way I saw life was the way I'd live life.

Life is not always comfortable. It is how we deal with being uncomfortable that makes us either a warrior or a worm.

There is no such thing as a weekend, and you don't live for your holidays

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

You can change your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential.

What other people think about me is not my business.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectation.

Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I've made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated.

Sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with Parkinson's, I've learned that what is important is making that step count; always looking up.

Through questions, leaders seek to learn not only what directly causes the problem or what solutions may work (which is single-loop learning), but also to seek to discover and learn what might be the underlying causes and solutions (double-loop learning) as well as the culture and mindset that create these causes and solutions (triple-loop learning).

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

Practice like you never won; play like you never lost.

You have to expect things of yourself before you do them.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

Make money with your mind, not your time.