Quotes About Mindset

I don't think about going back to the theater.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Music does help me a lot with my character, with the fact that I have to have a really good theme song, something that I can get into while I'm walking down the ramp. It puts me into that mindset that I'm going into a mosh pit.

Listen, young man, everyone has their hard knocks and disappointments. Everyone, not just you. I know for you this is a big one, but it might help to wrap your head around what you have, not what's missing.

It was not in her nature to be negative. Why had she failed to remember all the victories?

I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks

But I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

You'll never escape the panopticon thinking like that.

Instead, the key to happiness and fulfilment lies in what we would call a psychological attitude

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.

The cause of our suffering is not what we do, but the way we perceive.

While losers languish Below The Line, preparing stories that explain why past efforts went awry, winners reside Above The Line, powered by commitment and hard work.

To get Above The Line, and out of the blame game, you must climb the Steps To Accountability by adopting See It, Own It, Solve It, Do It attitudes.

Whatever the wording, all our justifications for failure focus on "why it can't be done," rather than on "what else I can do." To

Too often, leaders attempt to change the way people act without changing the way they think (i.e., their beliefs). As a result, they get compliance, but not commitment; involvement, but not investment; and progress, but not lasting performance.

When you can't control your circumstances, don't let your circumstances control you.

people must abandon the past-oriented, blame-centered who-done-it definition of accountability.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

An open mind is not an empty one.