Quotes About Mindset

Get in the Word until the Word gets in you. Cast down evil imaginations.

Son, if you think about, read about, and talk about demons, they will show up.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

If you think you'll get tired, then you will get tired. If you think you'll lose, you will lose.

Cognitive recovery work aims to make your brain user friendly. It focuses on recognizing and eliminating the destructive thoughts and thinking processes you were indoctrinated with in childhood.

Who we are being is more important than what we are doing.

And the point? This is the point. Paradise lives in our heads so it can be anywhere and with anyone.

If you've recently learned that you have a brain tumor, keep this in mind: You are a statistic of one.

John G. turns on him, hands on hips, hair caked with snow. 'Hey, buddy, let me tell you something. Drugs are the only thing I got. I am a drug addict. That's all I've ever been and that's all I'll ever be. Even if I'm not putting a needle in my arm or pipe in my mouth right this second, the thought is still in my mind.' He taps the side of his head. 'And if I decide I'm gonna get high to deal with the pressures in my life, there's not a fuckin' thing you can do about it.

You do not have enough, therefore you are not enough" is a powerful belief sustaining the market. The faith communities must believe "You are enough, and therefore you have enough." And so must we all.

Study skills and learning skills are inert until they're powered by an active ingredient," Dweck says. The active ingredient is the simple but nonetheless profound realization that the power to increase your abilities lies largely within your own control.

When you praise for intelligence, kids get the message that being seen as smart is the name of the game. "Emphasizing effort gives a child a rare variable they can control," Dweck says. But "emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of a child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure." 18

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

Le persone felici cucinano bene e creano cose eleganti. Chi è felice non ha voglia di mangiare carne in scatola e frattaglie tritate. Ha voglia di mettere un vestito che gli doni, non scarpe vecchie e golfoni. Forse lo stato d'animo non influisce sul clima, ma non è detto.

It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

Being "in" with God is about much more than the thoughts we keep in our heads, the belief systems we hold on to, the doctrines we recite, or the statements of faith we adhere to, no matter how fervently and genuinely we do so, and how important they may be.

Faith describes our whole way of looking at life and how we act on that.

Probably for the first time in my life I was beginning to comprehend that trust was a habit I would need to cultivate.

Thinking ish-ly allowed ideas to flow freely.

Psychologists call this sort of mental mechanism, in which beliefs conform to behavior rather than the other way around, a response to "cognitive dissonance,

It was an achievement-free zone, which Wynn was coming to realize is where most of his joy happened.

he didn't seem to mind being cold and wet or exhausted the way other people did. It wasn't fun, but then life wasn't meant to be that fun. That was the difference, Wynn thought. For Jack, stuff like cold and hunger didn't have a value, good or bad, they just were, and it was best if they didn't last that long; but if they did, as long as one survived them, no harm, no foul. It gave Jack a strength, a temper, that Wynn admired.