Quotes About Mindset

The moral is that people are paying less attention to you than you believe.

the current situation being a toss-up as to what you want to believe. Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. Hence you will find that often what you believe is what you want to believe, rather than being the result of careful thinking.

While the roles we play in life—parent, child, friend, author, coach, teacher, you name it—are important, they are not our life's purpose. Purpose is not a role or a goal; it is an aim and a mindset. To awaken, to grow, to continually give, and to make a difference to others—that's why we are here. It's who we bring to what we do.

There are no alternatives. You live with what is. And you don't let your ghosts rent room in your head.

Choose your feelings as you would a weapon. This is what it is to be Majak.

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. SUSAN JEFFERS

We cannot control the reception of our work. We must find our dignity in the doing.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

The myth that we must have "time"—more time—in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have. If we are forever yearning for "more," we are forever discounting what is offered.

The myth that we must have time - more time - in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have. If we are forever yearning for more, we are forever discounting what is offered.

Optimism is a practiced choice.

Hacer progresos, no llegar a la perfección es lo que deberíamos pedirnos a nosotros mismos.

the average Frenchman would shrug, as if to say: These notions of yours are all very fascinating, no doubt, but we make a decent living. Nobody has ulcers. I have time to work on my monograph about Balzac, and my foreman enjoys his espaliered pear trees. I think as a matter of fact, we do not wish to make the changes that you suggest.

You've got to be responsible for your own happiness - you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel.

Try as I could—which wasn't very hard—I rarely ended up fantasising a markedly different life from the one that has been mine. I don't think this is complacency; it's more likely a lack of imagination, or ambition, or something.

Logiškai m?st?, o paskui elg?si logiška išvada. Ta?iau daugelis iš m?s?, ?tariu, daro priešingai: priima instinktyv? sprendim?, paskui kuria priežas?i? infrastrukt?r? jam pateisinti. O rezultat? pavadina sveiku protu.

The conservative, the slow-witted and the envious existed in every profession.

Jis buvo gilesnio proto ir griežtesnio b?do nei aš. Logiškai m?st?, o paskui elg?si remdamasis logiška išvada. Ta?iau daugelis iš m?s?, ?tariu, daro priešingai: priima instinktyv? sprendim?, paskui kuria priežas?i? infrastrukt?r? jam pateisinti. O rezultat? pavadina sveiku protu.

He said that there were three preconditions for happiness — stupidity, selfishness and good health

To be a stoic in an age of self-pity is to be judged standoffish; worse, unfeeling.

There can be a complacency to failure as much as a complacency to success.

Why did people imagine that progress consisted of believing in less, rather than believing in more, in opening yourself to more of the universe?

Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.

We naturally look for evidence that confirms our beliefs. We then experience what we believe, even when there is evidence to suggest otherwise.