Quotes About Mindset

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

And isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you're good and crazy, ooh ooh ooh, the sky's the limit!

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

next shot is eighty percent of winning golf..

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Up to a considerable point, as I see it, there's nothing difficult about golf, nothing. I see no reason, truly, why the average golfer, if he goes about it intelligently, shouldn't play in the 70s

For this I find, where jealousy is fed, Horns in the mind are worse than on the head.

I avoided false optimism, but I did not want to appear defeatist, either.

I still considered myself a conservative.

The closer I got to my finish line, that rubbley (ph) rocky coast of Ross Island, the more I started to realize that the biggest lesson that this very long, very-hard walk might be teaching me is that happiness is not a finish line and that if we can't feel content on our journeys amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit - the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times - then we might never feel it.

a society of essential oils and self-esteem has replaced a society of logic.

I've never seen anyone's life get better by complaining about reality, I've seen it get better by accepting reality as it is and then making personal decisions to make it better.

This is why it's so comfortable to be on the left: that unearned sense of moral superiority. Unearned,

if you repeat something enough, it becomes true.

And just as he done for thriteen years, he forced his mind to ignore the hurt

Survivors aren't superheroes who vanquish adversity every time and live happily ever after. If you think they're always triumphant, you're wrong. They're regular people who win some and lose some. They share a mind-set but they don't all possess the same personality. They overcome adversity but they don't necessarily accomplish it the same way. They aren't always adaptable and optimistic; they feel stuck and gloomy, too.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

If you were damned certain you weren't looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn't see it.