Quotes About Mindset

Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success.

It's just that smart people are prone to look into matters to see how they might go about buttering their toast. Then they butter their toast.

Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

our typical reaction to scarcity hinders our ability to think.

we all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided.

Psychologists have long understood the power of the consistency principle to direct human action.

Every day in every way, I'm getting better. —EMILE COUE

The press may not be successful most of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling them what to think about.

Bad social proof in this situation. Temporarily disconnect automatic pilot.

The differential phrasing might seem minor, but it is critical to achieving the company's unitization goal. Providing advice puts a person in a merging state of mind, which stimulates a linking of one's own identity with another party's.

Actually he wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." For some obscure reason, a central distinction had been lost as the years eroded the accurate version of his statement to mean something entirely different and, upon close inspection, entirely silly.44

automatic-pilot device, like social proof, should never be trusted fully;

And once you've got a man's self-image where you want it, he should comply naturally with a whole range of your requests that are consistent with this view of himself.

foolish purchase decisions,

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Or, at least, so goes a frequently heard quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

As Samuel Butler wrote more than 300 years ago, "He who agrees against his will / Is of the same opinion still.

this would involve moving incrementally from the negative state to another state which is only somewhat negative; confusion, for example. From the somewhat negative state, a small but significant step can be made to a state that is slightly positive; let's say curiosity about what might happen next. It is then relatively simple to take a step from the somewhat positive state to the desired state of motivation.

See, Matt, there's two kinds of people," he went on. "And the difference is in how they see themselves. One guy says to himself, 'I'm the boss of circumstances.' The other guy says, 'I'm the victim of circumstances.'...And you know what?...They're both right.

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.