Quotes About Mindset

if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

I think I'm fine. Maybe it hasn't hit yet. Is that bad? It's not bad or good. It just is. That's something you'll find out if you decide to go into this line of work. You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be.

Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.

He hated stupidity. It was the only emotion I had ever seen him display toward people—a

there's no such thing as a lousy job—only lousy men who don't care to do it.

No hay pensamientos malvados, señor Rearden —dijo Francisco suavemente—, excepto uno: negarse a pensar.

Money inside a man's pocket has the power to turn into confidence inside his mind.

He was accustomed to hostility; this kind of benevolence was more offensive than hostility.

there have been centuries of philosophers plotting to turn the world into just that—to destroy people's minds by making them believe that that's what they're seeing. But you don't have to accept it. You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold on to yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is—say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

What does all this do to the best minds among the students? Most of them endure their college years with the teeth-clenched determination of serving out a jail sentence.

Have you ever noticed that if there's a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?

over time I've trained myself to take the long view, about how important it is to stay focused on your goals rather than getting hung up on the daily ups and downs.

The trick is not caring that it hurts.

Isn't that what you say in America? Just go with the flow.…" Roy laughed again, loud enough for the people at the next table to turn around. Only the magic was gone out of it now; it sounded hollow, as if it were traveling across a vast, empty distance.

What's the trick? the man asks. The trick is not caring that it hurts.

if you're thinking: 'Am I succeeding? Am I in the right position? Am I being appreciated?' — then you're going to end up feeling frustrated and stuck. But if you can keep it about the work, you'll always have a path. There's always something to be done.

If you are living life to its fullest, you will fail.

important it is to stay focused on your goals rather than getting hung up on the daily ups and downs.

Show me someone who's okay with losing," he said, "and I'll show you a loser.

there's good crazy and bad crazy

I've trained myself to take the long view, about how important it is to stay focused on your goals rather than getting hung up on the daily ups and downs.

That's like hating a copperhead, Rafe said. She is what she is. Don't waste your time on it.

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

I'm not cut out for happy. Busy is going to have to do.