Quotes About Mindset

Non mi preoccupo mai del futuro, arriva sempre abbastanza presto

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.

Die reinste Form des Wahnsinns ist es, alles beim alten zu lassen und zu hoffen, dass sich etwas ändert.

The world as we have created it is the process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

No problem can be solved at the level of consciousness in which it was conceived.

Anger is the only negative emotion that people all over the world usually want to keep.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

you do feel like a noble, superhuman, holier-than-thou person, you are then, according to REBT, experiencing an unhealthy positive feeling.

Intense rage will normally make you stew instead of do when you encounter unfairness, and if you act while enraged you will often fight foolishly and badly.

people often want to remain angry. This represents a very important difference between anger and other troublesome emotions.

how it blocks them from reaching their goals

Persist at using the scientific method of questioning and challenging your irrational Beliefs until you begin to give them up, increase your effectiveness, and enjoy yourself more.

The first point in this model is: Feelings largely cause behavior. The way you feel, and how strongly, greatly influence how you will behave in a situation. If you get yourself overly anxious, angry, and upset about getting somewhere, you will likely drive like a nut.

This might sound extreme, perhaps even a little deranged, but I don't think you can make it to the very top rank in any sport if you don't have a similar aversion to losing—a visceral, physical loathing. I look for this trait in an athlete, although the hatred of losing has to be balanced by a certain degree of realism, an ability to step back just enough so that you can process your disappointing performance and learn from it.

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

If you're always scared of dying, Obispo had said, you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either.

One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons- that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

A felicidade nunca é graciosa. Happiness is never gracious.

You can't be a good economist unless you're also a good psychologist. Or a good engineer without being the right kind of metaphysician.

And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virture-- liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

To use the intelligence in any other than the habitual way is not to use the intelligence; it is to be irrational, to rave like a madman.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.