Quotes About Mindset

Paradoxically, the more people give up their crutches, the soothing mechanisms of their lives, their self-nourishing habits and deadening routines, the more they are able to embrace life.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. —Marcus Aurelius

We think we're better than average at not being biased in thinking that we're better than average.

I" act differently when in different "moods

últimamente me noto una tendencia preocupante a aceptar las cosas tal como son.

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Replace 'I don't have time' with 'it doesn't matter' and see how that feels.

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

It is often assumed that a symbol, while not necessarily representing a truth, represents a belief, and so speaks directly for a historical frame of mind.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.

A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.

You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.

you imagine the worst, and when you do, your mind stops at the problem and does not consider the solution.

Too much on my mind. Too many directions to think in all at once. I sometimes feel that if I had time to focus my mind on just one problem, I could solve it. And then go on to solve the others." "Every man believes that. It isn't so. Slay the ones you can as they come to hand, and after a while you get used to the ones you can do nothing about.

Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.

Stop defining yourself by what you can't do. Why don't you consider what you didn't lose?

Jek is too busy living. She won't waste time on regrets.

The future cannot take from us the days we have left…unless we let it. p. 46 The Fool to Fitz