Quotes About Mindset

I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway.

Goddam life, I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway. That's my goddam attitude, and I'll stick by it; this ain't a sad world unless you're sane

H]e who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.

If you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem.

If you think the tea is dirty, it is dirty. If you think it is clean, it is clean.' He said, 'You're right. I will drink the tea.'" (Laughter.)

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us.

We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even begin to approach the phenomenon of change that occurs spontaneously when we see things differently

Your attitude determines your altitude

When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future.

what we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn.

We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.

love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven by feelings.

as Marilyn Ferguson observed, "No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.

As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, "No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them." It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place. I

In the words of Thoreau, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

I am the creative force of my life.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.