Quotes About Mindset

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

I learned how to play hard to get (push and pull) from my teacher Kwon Jiyong.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.

For example, the questions that say, Would you prefer... Would you prefer (a) Answer questions about what you do, (b) Answer questions about what you know, (c) Answer questions about what you think? My answer is Depends. But it's not one of the choices. I am having to think in terms of Always, Sometimes, Never.

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are

Pleasure is an attitude, not a person or place.   —Diary 6, pg. 52

Why go to Tahiti or Bali? Only sad, defeated people do that.

Noi non vediamo le cose come sono; le vediamo come siamo noi.

Anaïs, beware of enlargement, exaggeration and dramatization. Beware of associating the bad weather, a tactless work, a rebuttal letter, a rejection, with a total picture for despair. You have courage, but this courage is severely strained by your enlargement of the obstacles and the way you hurl yourself against them as if your life depended on it.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

L'homme qui se dit heureux et qui pense, celui-là sera appelé vraiment fort.

In irresolution lies the secret of not growing old.

Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

Control what you can control.