Quotes About Mindset

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.

If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual

One broken window—a badly designed piece of code, a poor management decision that the team must live with for the duration of the project—is all it takes to start the decline. If you find yourself working on a project with quite a few broken windows, it's all too easy to slip into the mindset of All the rest of this code is crap, I'll just follow suit.

The world believes, "Success makes you happy." The truth is; happiness makes you successful. The Happier You Get …

This might come as a shock: if you aren't happy now, maybe you haven't wanted it enough.

Every "disaster" in your life is not so much a disaster, as a situation waiting for you to change your mind about it.

YOU CAN'T FIX LIFE BY WORKING ON THE OUTSIDE.

Procura hablar siempre bien de ti mismo e imagina que tu vida funciona como tú deseas. Así crearás nuevos patrones de felicidad.

Whatever anybody else thinks of you is none of your business.

Nothing to do but laugh about it. True for everything.

The Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno wrote, "It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

Some people can bear a great deal of pain and still experience great happiness, while others are made unrelentingly miserable by less acute pain.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. My mother didn't love me. So what. My husband won't ball me. So what. I'm a success but I'm still alone. So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say 'so what'. That's one of my favorite things to say.

Focus can change literally everything.

Damn. It's still the Midwest around here, no matter how many open-minded people you surround yourself with.

Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

Maybe the truth is there's a little bit of loser in all of us you know, being happy isn't having everything in your life being perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. Making those count more then the bad stuff. Maybe we just get through it and that's all we can ask for.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

when life gives you lemons, say, yeah I like lemons, what else ya got?