Quotes About Mindset

Conquanto fosse muito mais baixa que eu, dera um jeito tão superior na cabeça que parecia olhar de cima.

O medo? O medo é um preconceito dos nervos. E um preconceito desfaz-se; basta a simples reflexão.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.

There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.

Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

The first rule of winning is to believe you're capable of winning.

Happiness, he said, warming his hands around a fresh cup of coffee, is a choice. "You have to brew it in yourself. Even from a lump of food, we choose each grain to suit our need. Likewise, in the philosophical manner, we choose to be who we are.

Noel had decided that the very best way to cope with things not being so great was not to think about them at all. It had worked well so far. Why

Art?k her ÅŸeyin eskisi gibi olmas?n? beklemekten vazgeçip olanlar? kabullenmenin zaman? gelmiÅŸti.

time sickness," the "obsessive belief that 'time is getting away, that there isn't enough of it'" (qtd. in Honoré 3).

At my age, I don't plan that far ahead. I don't even buy green bananas." Maggie Smith in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Today I think of myself as a 'recovering pessimist.' I know that optimism is not at odds with wisdom. It's quite the opposite. I think of cynicism as cool but lazy, while hope is desperately uncool—it has sweaty palms and an earnest smile on its face. What I know to be true is that one hopeful person will accomplish more than a hundred cynics. Why? Because the hopeful person will try.

good decisions aren't always made for healthy reasons.

To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.

I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.

We fall out of truth-default mode only when the case against our initial assumption becomes definitive. We do not behave, in other words, like sober-minded scientists, slowly gathering evidence of the truth or falsity of something before reaching a conclusion. We do the opposite. We start by believing. And we stop believing only when our doubts and misgivings rise to the point where we can no longer explain them away.

The power of positive thinking will overcome so many things

the fact of being an underdog can change people in ways that we often fail to appreciate:

When you are drunk, your understanding of your true self changes.

By making people think about jam, Wilson and Schooler turned them into jam idiots.

We do the opposite. We start by believing.