Quotes About Mindset

I'm an optimist who keeps my goals narrow.

Either live in thrall to statistics or make them your friends.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Education is one of the most beautiful and liberating things we can pursue in our lives, but too often it is approached as a restrictive, punitive, linear, and moralistic act.

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

insisted on comparing upward, which is the worst thing you can do. As Richard Layard writes, "One secret of happiness is to ignore comparisons with people who are more successful than you are: always compare downwards, not upwards.

You all sound like you think sixty-five is old because the world tells you sixty-five is old," she admonished. "As a few years go by, you'll realize sixty-five is pretty young.

What if I had become a chronically dissatisfied person?

People, after all, for the most part do not spend a lot of energy comparing themselves with others in far-off lands.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

If you're eating an ice cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.

Our Company was participating in a management seminar in which we were taught a strategy that goes by the unlovely name of 'reverse your buts.' I did not make this up! It works like this: Maybe you're thinking, 'I love you, but you're driving me crazy.' Instead, try thinking, 'You're driving me crazy, but I love you." Isn't it amazing how different that feels?

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

You can't change who you are, but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought, act on it.

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter." When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Sure, equal pay, maternity leaves, and pro sports are important. But a girl can't make a free throw from the foul line if her head's not in the game.

Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

bisogna essere preparati a tutto, anche alla felicità.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.