Quotes About Mindset

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh.

Because talent is a function of acquired skills rather than innate ability, adult achievement depends completely on long-term attitude and resources and process rather than any particular age-based talent quotient.

For the English player, more comfort is not required. He sits straight as a poker on his chair, keeps his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, and does not move until he for an hour has [surveyed] the chessboard. His opponent has sighed hundreds of times when the Englishman eventually moves his piece.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

People doom and damn themselves with their own perverse and pessimistic beliefs about reality.

When man no longer regards himself as karmic he ceases to be so. That's the end of karma right there – when people stop believing in it, stop taking the idea seriously, stop treating it as real. Hinduism and Buddhism are total nonsense because they are predicated on karma, which is an illusion! They themselves say so!

It won't always be wonderful. It depends on your state of grace.

Cette vie que tu as réduite à des petits tracas, à de légers soucis qui occupent ton esprit étroit comme l'anneau que tu portes à ton annulaire gauche.

Just tell yourself, "No broken windows.

Y en esta nueva sociedad de un modo u otro todos acabaremos siendo un poco millennials, no importa en qué año hayamos nacido.

Risero entrambi, ricordandomi che sapevo parlare, quando ero dell'umore giusto. I miei ostacoli erano spesso miei, appunto.

The defender must first think defensively, but he must also think offensively. For an attacker it is the other way around. Somewhere they meet.

We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way.

Present-day science, conventional medicine, and the mindset of 'better living through chemistry' have delivered their results, and they are less an excellent. Essentially, due to poor results, these methods no longer reign supreme.

The world we think we see is only a view, a collective description of the world that we create through our belief systems. Accepting this fact seems to be one of the most empowering things one can do.

You can't focus on death, or failure. Otherwise you're surrendering greatness to all the people too dumb to contemplate it.

Never stop working on yourself. You can't change other people but you definitely can change yourself.

So long as your eyes remain set upon the things of this world, your acts will lead to earthbound results.

But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely "coasting by" in life isn't an accomplishment.

They certainly read and watch videos like the rest of us. But they tend to spend much more time pouring information out of their consciousness than sucking information into their consciousness.

Adlai has a third rate mind that he can't make up.

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

Though our approach to running may have seemed [unconventional], we still took winning seriously