Quotes About Mindset

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

The Department of the Army's Field Manual 3-05.70 states about survival: A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude of the individual involved.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Happiness is a decision.

What other people think of me is not my business.

Optimism is a cure for many things.

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Never say never, because limits, like fear, are often just an illusion.

Why would I think about missing a shot that I haven't taken yet?

Why would I think about missing a shot I haven't taken yet?

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours

Amos was not merely an optimist. He willed himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it and the second time when it happens.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

That's all right," says Billy. "We're blending what we see but we aren't allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice

The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it expected to see.

But if you worry about everything, you wind up worrying about nothing.

The batter's box was a cage designed to crush his spirit.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

He'd always been just the way he was, a person who was happier counting than feeling his way through life.

The specific thing that blew my mind was using multiple semi-effective strategies together. There was no silver bullet. Right then I say, 'This is important. This has legs. It's not my job. I don't give a shit. I'm working on this.