Quotes About Mindset

I don't like to complain about life's little ups and downs, but maybe we should talk about it.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots." - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium

But in More Stock Investing For Beginners we get into what I call the Warren Buffett mindset. It goes something like this. Just because the stock is selling for $ 5.17 right now doesn't mean you can't put an order in for $ 5.00.

The secret to money is so simple that most people completely miss it, because they're looking for some grand answer about this resource called money, which has so much power over them."

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

Existing businesses aspiring to become adaptive corporations need to commit to understanding what exactly an adaptive innovator is and how that differs from both systemic designers and knowledge workers. In the end, they will actually need conscious planning to move them from a decades-imbedded orientation of knowledge work, to a new mindset of continuous adaptive innovation centered on the customer.

When we believe something, we act as if it is true.

Erich Fromm, a German-American psychologist and author, reminds us that "people never think their way into new ways of acting, they always act their way into new ways of thinking.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

Finding a sense of hope and working towards positive change, irrespective of our circumstances, is healthy. Living out the fantasy that every dream can be achieved is not.

Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.

But why think about what was wrong when you could be thinking about what was right?

In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who do not bring much with them to its study.

It is what men think, that determines how they act

La condición estacionaria del capital y de la población no implica un estado estacionario del mejoramiento humano. Habría muchas oportunidades para todo tipo de mentalidades culturales, para el progreso moral, social, para perfeccionar el arte de vivir si las mentes dejasen de centrarse en el arte de medrar" Principios de Economía Política

The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

Poverty can't make you miserable; only a bad character and a weak spirit can do that.

These are the thinking zone, programming zone, and performance zone.

Formular o hacer preguntas cerradas libera a las personas de tener que pensar. Hacer preguntas abiertas las obliga a pensar por sí mismas.

To use coaching successfully we have to adopt a far more optimistic view than usual of the dormant capability of all people. Pretending we are optimistic is insufficient because our genuine beliefs are conveyed in many subtle ways of which we are not aware.

You tend to get what you focus on. If you fear failure, you are focused on failure and that is what you get.

lo dijo Einstein: «Ningún problema puede ser resuelto en el mismo nivel de conciencia en el que se creó».

As for the Homeland, it had another meaning which had nothing to do with geographical place. It concerned not where you lived but how you lived, for, in effect, it defined a way of thinking, of looking at things.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.