Quotes About Mindset

Drop the delusion that you have become old or diseased, or that you have become weak and debilitated. Some people begin to count the years and grieve over advancing age and shudder like cowards afraid of death. But remember, elation is heaven, despondency is hell. Have always some work to do, and do it well that you will get joy.

Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. —FRANCIS BACON

Artists are often victims in a way of their own perceived quality gaps. They struggle to match the ideas in their minds to what they can manifest in the world.

I call this the challenge of indifference. As we grow up we're taught self-control, how to focus ourselves, and how to tune out things that are "wrong" or "juvenile" or "wastes of time." We become indifferent to the whims of the child mind, trading it in for suits and resumes—the tools of success in the adult world.

good thinking wins,

an essential part of many martial arts disciplines. Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.

The most dangerous tradition we hold about work is that it must be serious and meaningless.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. -Scott Hamilton

The only handicap in life is a bad attitude.

Some bad things are going to happen, but more great things are going to happen. If you tend to see more bad than good, then you have to build that positive muscle in your brain much like an athlete does certain muscles to execute a certain move.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude

All I'm saying is that we can't get caught up in our mistakes, our failures, our setbacks, or our victories. None of it defines us. None of this is worth holding on to. We have to build on every victory toward our next victory, or we'll miss the incredible potential we each have to bring our gifts to the world.

From that day on, I looked at what I believed to be "curses" as blessings, and I now realize that the ability to do so makes one a champion more than landing a perfect triple lutz does.

We do not get to choose all of the opportunities that come our way. We do not get to choose our entire path. But we do get to choose what to do with setbacks and opportunities that come our way. We do get to choose how we behave as we wait to know what is coming next. We do get to decide that no matter what happens, we will be ready. Are you willing to have a good attitude even when things aren't going your way? This is the attitude of a winner.

When your goal is bigger than you and you realize, in fact, so little of what you do is about you, that no one is paying much attention to you anyway, suddenly you can get out of your own way. If you're struggling with getting out of your own way, ask yourself who needs this that is not you. Do it for that person.

You will move the direction in which you're pointed. If you are always looking back to the past, reliving your failures or even your successes, no wonder you're not moving forward very quickly. You can either spend time sitting around, thinking about the "glory days," or you can get about the business of finishing first in your life right now. The idea is to stay pointed forward, to focus your attention on the direction you'd like to go.

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.

I wouldn't call it looming, madam. Some of us simply aren't built for looming," said Locke.