Quotes About Mindset

Pygmalion effect

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory.

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it.

Solo podemos lograr una mejora considerable en nuestra vida cuando dejamos de cortar las hojas de la actitud y la conducta y trabajamos sobre la raíz, sobre los paradigmas de los que fluyen la actitud y la conducta.

Not facing reality would have been to accept the idea that what's happening in our environment had to determine us.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts

Un serio problema del lenguaje reactivo es que se convierte en una profecía de autocumplimiento.

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes. Habits are powerful factors

Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you. Your creative, visual right brain is one of your most important assets, both in creating your personal mission statement and in integrating it into your life.

If ten seconds can have that kind of impact on the way we see things, what about the conditioning of a lifetime?

Your attitude determines your altitude," "Smiling wins more friends than frowning," and "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

Most of us learn to base our self-worth on comparisons and competition. We think about succeeding in terms of someone else failing—that is, if I win, you lose; or if you win, I lose. Life is a zero-sum game. There is only so much pie, and if you get a big piece, there is less for me.

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

Either way—authoritarian or permissive—you have the golden egg mentality. You want to have your way or you want to

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can

We can see a reality that is superseded by his limited perception—a reality that is as critical for us to understand in our daily lives

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the

I know this idea is a dramatic paradigm shift for many people. It is so much easier to blame other people, conditioning, or conditions for our own stagnant situation. But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.

It was not the luck of being at the right moment in history that separated Bill Gates, but his proactive response to being at the right moment (Habit 1: Be Proactive).

becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They begin with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

But as proactive people, we can carry our own physical or social weather with us.