Quotes About Mindset

People who suffer from learned helplessness think they have no control over their situations, so even if their suffering is great, they won't take the smallest action to change matters because they figure, What's the point?

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to.

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won't be able to miss it.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

If you don't love your body, change your mind; if your partner doesn't love your body, change your partner.

The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.

Don't play the occasion, play the game.

We had a virus that infected everyone at United. It was called winning.

If you overemphasise opponents strengths, you just plant seeds of doubt in your players.

Opponents come to Old Trafford expecting an onslaught. 'Why disappoint them?' I say to my players.

I find that if you're a good student, the teacher hardly matters.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

When we complain, we hold whatever or whoever we're complaining about as a shield. We therefore perpetuate victimization and helplessness.

1. We choose a positive attitude about the situation at hand. 2. We choose to visualize what's possible to deal with the situation at hand. 3. We choose an attitude that generates passion for the action that makes the possible become a reality.

Frankl's key message that we always have the ability to respond to anything that comes our way in life by exercising our capacity to find meaning. Life doesn't just happen to us—we are responsible for our own lives, and it is up to us, like Frankl was able to do even in the Nazi death camps, to actively find meaning in our lives. We cannot be victims, we cannot be passive participants in life and, most of all, we cannot be prisoners of our thoughts!

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

If you put your mind to it, not as a school lesson but as a practical tool that you've got to master, you may find it a lot easier than you think.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider ó and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation ó persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.