Quotes About Mindset

Success isn't anything to do with being lucky. It's knowing what you want, taking the necessary action, and believing you can achieve anything you set your mind to.

We need to go into every game believing we are going to win.

Once that bell rings, all I can do is perform at the best of my abilities and at the top of my game.

No success, no nothing, no belt, no person can change the way I act, the way I feel.

I don't care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.

I don't just think about the belt, I think past the belt.

as long as you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.

Meditation is a way of being, not a technique.

If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

I grew up with an ambition and determination without which I would have been a good deal happier.

Maybe, I think, I don't have to be great at this; maybe I just have to be good enough.

According to this mind-set, there can only be two precursors to rape: (1) A stranger jumps out from the bushes; (2) There is no rape unless the woman puts up a fight, to the death if necessary.

By closing our minds to the even remote possibility that a political leader with whom we nearly always disagree might have a point about a particular matter is to preemptively surrender the capacity of the mind to shape our public lives.

deciding that instant judgment was a more heroic stance than curiosity. When

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head.

I don't think I'm any different than any woman. I mean, any woman who hasn't had her mind fucked up by male religion.

Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think.

mental attitude is what mainly determines the quality of your life.

Viv used to say there were two types of person in life, past tense and present tense. Viv had seen herself as a present-tense person, which gave her an excuse never to discuss what she felt about a thing that had already happened.

Sometimes it's better not to think in questions, but I can't seem to get out of the habit.

The difference between conceding and accepting is depression.