Quotes About Mindset

Perhaps it was time, for once, to stop letting the rain dictate his mood. He couldn't banish the seed of darkness inside him, but Stormfather, he didn't need to let it rule him either.

You can beat anybody, Wayne always said, so long as you don't let them fight back properly.

Okay, I could deal with this. I could accept this. Deal with this, brain!

How easily Elend spoke of hope and humor, as if being happy were simply a decision one made. Some people assumed that it was. Once, Sazed might have agreed with them. Now, his stomach simply twisted, and he felt sick at the thought of taking pretty much any action. His thoughts were constantly invaded by doubts.

The answer, then, wasn't to stop judging. It was to hold those judgments as mutable.

I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man or woman's mind.

He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to. As

if he believed he didn't have to care, then he didn't need to hurt when he failed.

I have to keep moving. Keep working. Don't let the pain take control.

You underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man or woman's mind.

el verdadero fracaso es elegir fracasar.

Until you know it ain't true, treat every woman like she has an older brother what is stronger than you are?

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Never look back at your past, everything happens for a reason, keep your head up and look forward. the more you look back the more beautiful things you will miss in life.

The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one's thinking.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?

At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say I contributed more than I criticized.

The new cultural belief that everything should be fun, fast, and easy is inconsistent with hopeful thinking. It also sets us up for hopelessness. When we experience something that is difficult and requires significant time and effort, we are quick to think, This is supposed to be easy; it's not worth the effort, or, This should be easier: it's only hard and slow because I'm not good at it. Hopeful self-talk sounds more like, This is tough, but I can do it.

You are responsible for the energy you bring into this room.

Quick and dirty wins the race. Perfection is the enemy of done. Good enough is really effin' good.

As Anne Lamott said, "Expectations are resentments waiting to happen." We have the tendency to visualize an entire scenario or conversation or outcome, and when things don't go the way we'd imagined, disappointment can become resentment. This often happens when our expectations are based on outcomes we can't control, like what other people think, what they feel, or how they're going to react.

how often we all try to solve problems by doing more of what's not working—just doing it harder, grinding it out longer. We'll do anything to avoid the lowest of the low—self-examination.

Happiness is tied to circumstance and joyfulness is tied to spirit and gratitude.

The opposite of scarcity is not abundance; the opposite of scarcity is simply enough.