Quotes About Mindset

We have to take every game serious. And when I say serious, I mean doing the right things, practicing good habits.

The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.

The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.

I don't take praise or criticism seriously.

I try not to let praise or criticism affect me.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

Listen, anybody can put their head down and throw a haymaker and pray and hope it lands.

I have to pray before I play, and I gotta eat right before I go out there. For a while when I was younger, I would always eat chicken tenders and fries no matter what.

If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.

I prayed before fights. Especially just before I got in to the ring. But I'd also have my iPod on, Prodigy and Linkin Park ripping through my ears.

I don't think I've ever actually prayed to win an event.

I always preach you have to have a short memory, whether it is good or bad.

I preach about getting the ball in the air.

The first few touches of the game, that's kind of like setting the precedent for me.

Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have.

I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.

Every day, we as athletes face several challenges during the training process, and it is imperative that we approach each situation carefully and with continued precision.

You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.

Thinking things like, 'I will never get hired for this job,' or 'Nobody ever listens to me,' can alter your behavior in a way that makes those predictions come true.

I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.

I prefer to stay poor.

I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.

I gained 60 pounds during my pregnancy, but I didn't say, 'I want to lost 10 pounds every month!' Instead, I said, 'I will lose two to three pounds.' I eventually saw progress, and that made me work harder.