Quotes About Mindset

There are always going to be distractions, push and shove between players. It's about rolling with the punches and enjoying every situation, good or bad.

You just have to kind of roll with the punches and say, 'Think what you want to think. I know who I am.'

For me in the past, working out has been a real chore and a punishment. When you're down that route, you're never going to keep it up.

My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

There are times when success doesn't make sense on a purely mathematical basis. I've played absolutely perfectly before, put in a masterful performance, and then my perfect play evaporated because one guy lost his mind and got lucky. Of course, I've also won that way.

I used to think if I didn't have a drink it was going to be a rubbish night, so I'd drink purely to get drunk.

I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.

'Mamma Mia' and 'Dallas' have proved to me that the things you dream about can happen. I don't ask myself, 'How did I get here?' but instead, 'I deserve to be here. I was right to think this would happen.' I'm a firm believer in the power we have in our minds to want something and pursue it in a sane and focused way.

I didn't pursue happiness at all. I've never pursued it. I wasn't brought up to pursue it.

I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. So if you set your mind to do something, and you exhaust every opportunity, I think you're going to get there.

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Why sit, be negative and be sad and depressed? You got to kind of push everything to the side and just focus on just getting better.

That's what I'm always searching for - finding the balance between not caring so much to where I put all this pressure on myself. But still caring enough to where it pushes me to work exactly how I've been working so far.

You have to be grateful for what you have, but you're always pushing further.

I didn't care what people thought of me, that I was getting better, pushing myself to get better. Those are the things I concentrate on. I don't concentrate on what everyone else was saying.

Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

Although we often assume that feelings inspire actions, in fact, actions also inspire feelings. By pushing myself to act happier, I make myself feel happier.

He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.

I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

I don't think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that's always pushing you to think about your next thing.

You are always pushing, pushing, pushing but it is when you do that that your body can break down.