Quotes About Mindset

Yogi Berra reportedly said, "It's not the heat, it's the humility.

The key to success is having the awareness to appreciate – in the words of the French novelist Anaïs Nin 'we see the world not as it is but as we are.' It's recognizing that we see events through our own mental filters and give our own meaning to those events – a meaning which may be very different to someone else's.

I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it

Why should my happiness depend on the thoughts going on in someone else's head?

Are we doormats? Definitely not. The difference, as I see it, is that we get on with our lives. We don't sit around letting that situation decide our emotional state.

We don't get caught in the trap of letting the situation upset us and then having to stay upset waiting for the situation to change to our satisfaction.

What would your life be like if you had the courage and wisdom to take charge? What if you made up your mind that from now on for the rest of your life, you alone would decide how you were going to feel? What kind of emotional life would you choose for yourself?

Oddly enough, not everyone wants to be affected in a positive way. Some individuals are addicted to their negative feelings. Just as many drinking people place little value on physical sobriety and never get sober, so too, many of us place little value on our emotional sobriety and never get comfortable.

Every time we are upset, we must admit to ourselves that we have chosen to be upset, no one has made us upset.

I blame my emotional state on what is happening outside me rather than admitting that at every moment of every day, consciously or unconsciously, I exercise a choice as to my mood and how I am going to feel.

allow the offending person to "make" them feel bad today. Such situations result in self pity, an emotion with absolutely no redeeming social value, but which obviously feels good, at least for a brief interval, or it wouldn't be so popular.

Chronic victims aren't up to that challenge, and their resentments are their excuse for staying emotionally where they are.

It is a basic psychological teaching that if we want to change the way we feel, we must first change the way we act.

We come to feel as we behave.

You can resent your bald spot or be glad you have a head.

The past is the past. It's the present we should worry about.

Strong emotions serve only to slow effective action.

The innovator's motto is this; I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

I knew from rock concerts that people notice your reaction to mistakes more than they notice the actual mistakes, so I just kept singing—in gibberish. Eventually my mind cleared.

Realizing you can't control what people choose to think: You can't make everyone happy—least of all someone who is projecting their own unhappiness onto you. Stop taking responsibility for your loved one's inner world and start taking responsibility for your own.

When I feel like exercising, I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

Kill your television!

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.