Quotes About Mindset

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

The things other people said or did would always give room to take offense, if you were of a mind to take offense. Therefore the fault wasn't in the other people.

Would you be able to recognize 'better' when you're in the mindset that life in its present form is somehow not good enough?

The way you talk about yourself and your lifeyour storyhas a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts create filters through which you view your life. If you think of yourself as a Victim, you filter all that happens to you through the lens of DDT, and you find plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. Thats why the orientation you adopt is so important: it exerts a powerful influence on your life direction.

Loving to rush around is not proof someone is hardworking—it's only the restlessness of an agitated mind.

Availability bias prevents us from setting our prior beliefs appropriately, whereas confirmation bias stops us from updating them for new information.

But few of us really stop to ask ourselves what new information might change our minds, especially on questions of politics and identity. We fall into the trap of confirmation bias, in which rather than updating our prior beliefs, we mould new information into a form that will confirm them.

Act happy. We can sometimes act ourselves into a frame of mind. Manipulated into a smiling expression, people feel better; when they scowl, the whole world seems to scowl back. So put on a happy face. Talk as if you feel positive self-esteem, are optimistic, and are outgoing. Going through the motions can trigger the emotions.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

a stoic always kept two files in his mind: one for those things that are up to him and within his power, and one for those that are not up to him and thus beyond his power. If you pay lots of attention to events beyond your power, you will ultimately have a life of fear and guilt; you must let those go and pay attention only to those things within your power.

I have memories — but only a fool stores his past in the future.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

The brain always quits before the body does. Once the mind knows you are not going to quit something, it's gonna try to find more, it's gonna try to give you more.

I think the way to stop it is to shrug it off. Or take it with your tongue in your cheek. Sure, that's the system. At any rate, it's the system that works for you. It's the automatic control board that keeps you out there where nothing matters, where it's only you and the keyboard and nothing else. Because it's gotta be that way. You gotta stay clear of anything serious.

I try to approach every day with hands that are open, not grasping.

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it: That's what gets results.

The flip side of credit is blame. A tendency to blame others, or circumstances, is generally a recipe for unhappiness in life.

We never let go of a belief once fixed in our minds" quoted by an Appalachian women with an air of pride.' (This quote explains a lot about my family)

It requires a certain kind of mind to see the beauty in a hamburger bun.

Pain is mandatory. Suffering is optional.