Quotes About Mindset

What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.

You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once.

There were a thousand ways to imagine someone unhappy and so few ways to imagine someone contented.

To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived—to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that—this doubtless is the right way to live. —HENRY JAMES

And as to being quick, why, bless you! That is only a matter of habit; if you get into the habit of being quick, it is just as easy as being slow; easier, I should say; in fact, it don't agree with my health to be hulking about over a job twice as long as it need take. Bless you! I couldn't whistle if I crawled over my work as some folks do!

Authoritarianism appeals, simply, to people who cannot tolerate complexity: there is nothing intrinsically "left-wing" or "right-wing" about this instinct at all. It is anti-pluralist. It is suspicious of people with different ideas. It is allergic to fierce debates. Whether those who have it ultimately derive their politics from Marxism or nationalism is irrelevant. It is a frame of mind, not a set of ideas.

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

It won't do us or those outside any good if we continue to be as gloomy as we are now. And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?

Everyone has to decide for himself how to get the better of his own mood

sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy." I stopped talking

A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.

It's a good thing I'm not the grouchy type, because then I might become sour and bad-tempered.

What's the good of thinking of misery when you're already miserable? That's stupid!

Expectations are resentments under construction.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that alot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.