Quotes About Mindset

I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.

Man is a hostage to the cage of cultural programing and the mass hallucination of the propagandist's narrative illusion.

transform yourself by the renewing of your mind. When you believe differently, you act differently and start to get different results.

Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

I was having to have fun and be happy. You wanted to be dead. It's different

Huge changes are rumbling throughout your entire life! To keep these changes on the highest possible course, be sure to keep your thoughts positive, and stay centered in prayer and affirmations.

There was no need to remind Roosevelt who controlled the senate. "I persistently refused to lose my temper," he recalled. "I merely explained good-humoredly that I had made up my mind." Though he steadfastly refused

In Eleanor's judgment, her husband was better able to meet the tension than many of the others, "because he'd learned from polio that if there was nothing you could do about a situation, then you'd better try to put it out of your mind and go on with your work at hand.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

For this, you are right, I need to be either entirely sober or very drunk indeed.

To succeed as you want, you have to be precise; you have to have polish; you have to carry polish and precision into everything you do. You have no time to sigh over seigneuries and begrudge other people their gifts. Lack of genius never held anyone back," said Lymond. "Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

I have a flexible mind—I believe it's one of the advantages of growing old," she explained. "I find youth quite rigid at times.

But this was exactly the age, she thought, when life ought to be spent, not hoarded. There had been enough years of comfortable living, and complacency was nothing but delusion. One could not always change the world, she felt, but one could change oneself.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh; to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.

A healthy perspective really is the foundation of joy and happiness, because the way we see the world is the way we experience the world. Changing the way we see the world in turn changes the way we feel and the way we act, which changes the world itself. Or, as the Buddha says in the Dhammapada, With our mind we create our own world.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.

Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.