Quotes About Mindset

You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent, so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber,

it was never about the seventy-nine dollars. it was really about changing people's mentality so they wouldn't shop anywhere else

Maggie's favorite phrase, something her mom in Quebec had taught her, was "You bring your own weather to the picnic." So both women smiled a lot. They both had smiles so great you sometimes forgot that they were meaningless. Maggie's

Voltaire to me: "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Wendy noticed that her chair was at least two inches lower than the others'. Classic—albeit amateur—intimidation move. Wendy crossed her arms and actually slid lower. Let them think they have the advantage. "So

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change

No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does not resist learning.

You'd better take time for 'em, honey, otherwise you'll never grow. You'll be the same at sixty as you are now—then you'll be a case and not my niece. You have a tendency not to give anybody elbow room in your mind for their ideas, no matter how silly you think they are.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents,' said Miss Maudie.

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem at the time

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." ? Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you're running and you think, 'Man, this hurts, I can't take it anymore. The 'hurt' part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

I've never once thought about how I was going to die," she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

The only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.

I just put my heart into it. That's the difference. It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something, you can do it, up to a point. If you really work at being happy, you can do it, up to a point...Anything more than that is luck.

Don't let the bad elves get you.

I'm not totally uncompetitive. It's just that for some reason I never cared all that much whether I beat others or lost to them. This sentiment remained pretty much unchanged after I grew up. It doesn't matter what field you're talking about -- beating somebody else just doesn't do it for me. I'm much more interested in whether I reach the goals that I set for myself, so in this sense long-distance running is the perfect fit for a mindset like mine.