Quotes About Mindset

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

In every human being, there are two wolves constantly fighting. One is fear, and the other is love. When Cork had asked which of the wolves won the battle, Meloux's answer had been: The one you feed. Always the one you feed.

fear is fear if you allow it to rule you it doesn't matter of what you are afraid of" - Maiev Shadowsong

Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe. I think maybe something like that happens with kids. You see what you want to see.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.

The postman said there were two ways of meeting experience—you could expect pain or you could expect happiness. "Now, I'm going to look on the bright side until I know to the contrary," he said. "I'm going to look on the bright side, and keep saying everything's going to come out the way I want it to.

Leroy unscrewed the hose from its faucet and prepared to put it away in the basement, thinking: Nobody can put nothing over on Rhoda, I'll say that much for her. And nobody can put nothing over on me, neither. I guess Rhoda and me are just alike. But in this he was mistaken, as we shall see in time, for Rhoda was able to put into action the things that he could only turn over in his mind as fantasies.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

Humility is awareness that you are an underdog in the struggle against your own weakness.

If you have realistically low expectations, you'll end up pleased in most circumstances.

And in all cases I have been pleasantly shocked to discover that by lowering my standards not only do I feel better about what I do but I tend to do it more effectively.

People are trying to be smart—all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

Who we are is who we choose to be in this very moment.

If you want to change yourself long term, you have to change the way you think and change the way you perceive the world. You have to come up with a new set of eyes to view yourself with. You need a new way of communicating internally with yourself and you need to ask yourself different questions.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

Ultimately you, and only you, can make yourself consistently happy. No one else can.

ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING: You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.

Your thoughts create your emotions; therefore, your emotions cannot prove that your thoughts are accurate.

Nearly two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher, Epictctus, stated that people are disturbed "not by things, but by the views we take of them.