Quotes About Mindset

They think danger means something physical, getting scratched and a little blood running and the newspapers making a big fuss. Well, that hasn't got anything to do with it. Real danger is nothing more than just living.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Does happiness really depend on self-delusion?

There are no silicon mines in Silicon Valley. The wealth resides in the minds of Google engineers and Hollywood script doctors, directors and special-effects wizards, who would be on the first plane to Bangalore or Mumbai long before the Chinese tanks rolled into Sunset Boulevard.

Still, humans have a wonderful capacity to believe in contradictions.

In order to function, the people who operate such a system of drawers must be reprogrammed to stop thinking as humans and to start thinking as clerks and accountants.

Human happiness depends less on objective conditions and more on our own expectations.

El dinero fue creado muchas veces y en muchos lugares. Su desarrollo no requirió grandes descubrimientos tecnológicos: fue una revolución puramente mental. Implicó la creación de una nueva realidad intersubjetiva que solo existe en la imaginación compartida de la gente.

Homo sapiens is just not built for satisfaction. Human happiness depends less on objective conditions and more on our own expectations.

The subjective is something that exists depending on the consciousness and beliefs of a single individual. It disappears or changes if that particular individual changes his or her beliefs.

Yet as noted earlier, economic entrepreneurship will have to be accompanied by a revolution in education and psychology.

happiness depends on expectations rather than objective conditions. We don't become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations.

money isn't a material reality – it is a psychological construct.

Así como cuando dos notas musicales discordantes que se tocan juntas obligan a una pieza musical a avanzar, la discordancia en nuestros pensamientos, ideas y valores nos fuerzan a pensar, reevaluar y criticar. La consistencia es el campo de juego de las mentes obtusas.

Buying cars and writing novels do not change our biochemistry.

Most important of all will be the ability to deal with change, learn new things, and preserve your mental balance in unfamiliar situations.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

If you focus on the process of climbing, you'll end up on the summit.

Paganism is more of an attitude of mind than a fixed creed. It is always tempting to ask, "what do Pagans believe?" but a better question is "what do Pagans do?

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing."

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Human is what he decides to be."

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.