Quotes About Mindset

who routinely hit 70 percent or more of their free throws tend to practice differently from those who hit 55 percent or fewer. How? Better shooters set technique-oriented goals such as, "Keep the elbow in," or, "Follow through." Players who shoot 55 percent and under tend to think more about results-oriented goals such as, "This time I'm going to make 10 in a row.

i gotta stop saying how stupid could you be? I'm beginning to feel like people are taking as a challenge

If you're too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you're too weak to handle success, which will only end up damaging your life and happiness.

Until you stop wishing things were different, accept the way they are, and take up the sole responsibility of doing something about it, nothing will change.

Napoleon Hill had a beautiful spin on the moments when things don't work out the way you planned and unexpected hardship falls on you. Instead of coming from a negative place and looking at those moments as a "failure," he called them "temporary defeats.

These are challenging times. Only the strong survive. And by the strong, I mean people with a strong enough mindset to make it through this particular place that we're in as a society. Because we're taking steps backward. We really are going backward.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Nuestra vida siempre expresa el resultado de nuestros pensamientos dominantes (Søren Kierkegaard)

You just click your heels and think there's no place like being pwned.

It was a whiny culture, we were finding.

How you think about what you're doing makes a huge difference

The only battles that he and his kin fought, the only blood they spilt was on the chessboard. Massacres and carnage were not to his taste. He preferred the long, slow, tortuous death. I

There are no small parts, only small actors.

When the only tool you own is a hammer . . ." "Every problem begins to resemble a nail.

When your life has an expiration date, you don't have time to be negative. (Paraphrased from Kresley Cole's book Lothaire)

My entire mind-set about the deed was evolving. Insight: if a guy I had sex with ever carved a notch into his bedpost, I'd tell him to carve one into mine too—and then to go make me a fucking sammich.

A mindset can shift in the space of a few missed breaths.

When you aren't committed to the outcome of the game, there is no way you can win.

You are what you believe you are.We make images in our minds of what will be based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of. Dr. Woodhouse to Caulder and Ginny

I try to forget that only this morning I had lost control.

But I have noticed that those who continually dread ill luck and fear it will overtake them, have no time to take advantage of any good fortune that comes their way.

If you think of some dreadful thing, it's liable to happen, but if you don't think of it, and no one else thinks of it, it just can't happen.

Don't try, my dear