Quotes About Mindset

People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.

the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes.

life is about getting the next footstep right.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

I met an immortal humani once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -Aoife the Shadows

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

If I make $100,000 a year and Elon Musk makes $100,000,000 a year and we both see a doubling of our incomes, while I should be thrilled at my newfound fortune of $200,000, if I compare it to Musk's massive $200,000,000, that comparative difference may feel worse, even though I'm better off and no one is worse off for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO's fortune.

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Most of us live in a state of perpetual "could be better." We're so used to having control over every little parameter of our lives that we cannot focus on what's going right, only on what's going wrong. That's the viewpoint we always seem to be coming from, and it means that we are perpetually unsatisfied, unhappy, disappointed, and ungrateful.

Keep down your losses—never let them get away from you. Let your profits take care of themselves.'"6

You can't be a trader when you're right and an investor when you're wrong. That's how you lose.

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

must be firmly implanted in our minds that victory is for one moment at a time, and that in any given moment we are participating in eternal victory or eternal defeat.

It must be firmly implanted in our minds that victory is for one moment at a time, and that in any given moment we are participating in eternal victory or eternal defeat.

There is nothing worse than a proud stoic. -- The Big Why

He believed he could spook the other side.

he thought emotionally, not strategically.

Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

it's perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it's the most common way.

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