Quotes About Mindset

What else can I do? are perhaps the five most powerful words anyone can say

They give you a smaller glass so it feels like you're getting more

That's because people find what they're looking for. If we look for beauty, we'll find beauty. If we look for conspiracies, we'll find conspiracies. It's all a matter of setting our mental channel.

Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened

Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises.

you should view each new travel frustration—sickness, fear, loneliness, boredom, conflict—as just another curious facet in the vagabonding adventure.

finding a singular travel experience doesn't require heroism so much as a simple change of mind-set. The reason so many travelers become frustrated while visiting world-famous destinations is that they are still playing by the rules of home, which "reward" you for following set routines and protocols.

If you view the world as a predominately hostile place, it will be," wrote Ed Buryn.

have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.

D. Rockefeller drew strength by simplifying reality and strongly believed that excessive reflection upon unpleasant but unalterable events only weakened one's resolve in the face of enemies.

Unfortunately, once in that state of mind, he was all but deaf to criticism.

In this moralistic frame of mind, he was bound to see his opponents as benighted, misguided people, "governed by their narrow jealousies and unwarranted prejudices

Yet Rockefeller didn't apply this pressure lightly and preferred patience and reason—if possible—to terror.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

He believed that anything could be reverse-engineered. If one human or group of humans put something together, then another human or group of humans could take it apart again. It was a basic principle. All that was required was empathy and thought and imagination. And he liked pressure. He liked deadlines. He liked a short and finite time to crack a problem. He liked a quiet space to work in. And he liked a similar mind to work with.

again. He had crashed through the barrier. He had stopped worrying and started relaxing. He was up on that plateau where you just did whatever needed doing. I knew that place.

The whole point of drifting was happy passive acceptance of no alternatives. Having alternatives ruined it.

I'm always happy," he said. "Always was, always will be.

A guy who was taught the front-sight mantra might focus so hard he could lose his peripheral vision.

She's a fatalist," I said.

Perception is reality, so it's up to us to create the perception

How we face death tells us a lot about how we'll face life.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.