Quotes About Mindset

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

The mindset of a terrorist and the mindset of intolerance know no territorial boundaries when individuals are targeted either for their eating habits or for any other reason.

I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

In white-ball cricket, things are different - over there, you outsmart the batsman, and over here in Test cricket, it's all about patience and consistency.

During a Test match I am not a very good sleeper, mainly because I am visualising. Everything is positive. Nothing negative.

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.

What is important for me is playing cricket and not thinking about how my Test career is shaping up. I am not into future planning and all. I am concerned about my present and not the future.

We all hit moments when we feel helpless. The test is how we react to that feeling. We can either learn from it and move forward or let it drag us down.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

Shifting from Tests to T20s is all about mental adjustment. I think adjusting to different conditions, in different situations is something I learnt by speaking to Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni.

I would say T20 cricket has introduced a more positive attitude in players and led to Tests also being played more aggressively and being more result oriented.

They always say baseball is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical, whatever that saying is. I don't even think I know it. But this game is already a game of failure. Going into it not feeling good, battling whatever injuries, tests you even more.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

If all you have is a hammer, everything seems to be a nail.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things.

Don't reinvent the wheel. Focus on winning one customer at a time. Be honest and sincere. Do what's right. There's nothing magical about this.' That's been my guiding principle. To make it work, you have to live it every day. Make it your mind-set.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.

The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.