Quotes About Mindset

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Las personas son tan felices como transforman sus mentes para serlo (Abraham Lincoln)

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si abordas cada situación como asunto de vida o muerte, morirás muchas veces (Adam Smith)

You're a glass-half-empty kind of guy, sir, aren't you? I don't even acknowledge the existence of the glass, son.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

Il mondo può anche chiederti di partecipare, ma la decisione di accettare la proposta viene presa di giorno in giorno.

No whining on the yacht.

People don't like to change their minds. Once they perceive you one way, that's it. They kind of file you away in their minds as a certain kind of person. You cannot become a different person in their minds.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

If you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.

However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief that our work should make us happy. All societies have had work at their centre; ours is the first to suggest that it could be something more than a punishment or a penance. Ours is the first to imply that we should seek to work even in the absence of a financial imperative.

Hoe machtig onze technologie en hoe complex onze ondernemingen ook mogen zijn, het opmerkelijkste kenmerk van onze moderne arbeid is uiteindelijk misschien wel iets wat in onszelf zit, een aspect van onze mentaliteit: de wijdverbreide overtuiging dat ons werk ons gelukkig moet maken.

We may be happy with little when we have come to expect little. And we may be miserable with much when we have been taught to expect everything.

We cease to appreciate things when we believe that life should be perfect and we can eradicate all known problems.

BOREDOM IS A new challenge and responsibility.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

We are creature deeply marked by our expectations

I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have retained intact ever since.

Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.