Quotes About Mindset

Successful people have successful habits. Mediocre people have mediocre habits. And it all starts with a choice.

You need to focus on reaching your goals rather than on the obstacles that stand in your way.

Success is, instead, an intentional approach to life that ensures you are a faithful steward of your gifts and talents.

success is an approach to life that is completely under your control. It does not depend on the outer circumstances of your life but on the inner condition of your soul.

Because you absorb the habits of those you spend time with, associate only with time-conscious people. Stay away from negative people.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

Spencer has told me to always pray in the affirmative, as though the prayer has already been answered. I should say, "Thank you, God, for helping me be kind and patient." As opposed to, "Please, God, help me be patient." Affirmative prayer reinforces that you have already received the guidance, therefore you are able to focus on the solution. Saying that I need help just reinforces the problem—helping me wallow in it.

If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving in order to survive.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

Your imagination is tricking you into making negative assumptions about people based on past experience. Your imagination is running the show, and the score is coming imagination one, you zero.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

The mechanical clock changed the way we saw ourselves. And like the map, it changed the way we thought. Once the clock had redefined time as a series of units of equal duration, our minds began to stress the methodical mental work of division and measurement.

Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts—the faster, the better.

the computer is never a neutral tool. It influences, for better or worse, the way a person works and thinks.

I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that's all you will be. Live in a swamp and you'll grow webbed feet.

wages and rewards of going with the flow of your programming. The willingness to feel fear and keep going forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Failure to improve is rarely a physical failure; it's almost always an entirely mental shortcoming.

Isn't life that much easier when you decide to want what is rather than trying to bend life to fit what you want instead?

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

If things don't go your way, you can change the way you feel about it.

The good is enough additude is not what we're looking for, we have got to use every oppurtunity to improve indivisually so we can improve collectively

Dominant teams rarely are outplayed or outclassed, but they sometimes beat themselves. Just because you are dominant does not mean you are infallible. Remember that dominance does not mean perfection; a lack of focus for even a short period of time can cost you. Do not relax when you are far ahead or dominating your marketplace. That is the time to push even harder.

Finally, your attitude is critical to success. Having a positive attitude can have a tremendous effect on how you react and respond to challenges, successes, and failures. And attitude is directly affected by expectations. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work.

If you know you will not be perfect, then those mistakes can roll off your shoulders as you move on to the next play. But if perfection is your ideal, those mistakes will cripple you with frustration. So be realistic, understand that you and others will make mistakes, and use those as building blocks for the future.