Quotes About Mindset

Failure in the past doesn't mean you'll fail in the future.

The best way to forever eliminate a habit is to slowly replace or "imprint" negative habits with healthier routines.

Step #2: Focus on One Habit at a Time

because it's almost impossible to change multiple habits at the same time.

What you need (and what the following book provides) is a strategy for identifying your worst habits and learning how to overcome them.

Some people just never seem to let themselves be happy," the sea hag said. "It's like they fight against their own contentment." Was

One small failure or even large success does not define any of us.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

this early learning of how to do things one tiny little step at a time. I learned to not worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn't ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

spending your time asking yourself if you're happy is as good a way to be miserable as I know.

Why willingness? Because I absolutely know how my pain works when I am unwilling, and I'm sick and tired of it. It's time to change my whole agenda, not just the moves I make inside a control and avoidance agenda.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson

Death? Since when is death failure?

People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

Let's say, for example, I'm playing ball but I decide to slack in school. I feel like that's going to carry over to baseball, that mentality. So I've always tried to put my nose down and just give everything I've got in whatever it is I'm doing.

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

I know in the back of my head I have a Grand Slam win, which definitely takes a lot off of me, a big load off.

Winning a Grand Slam is not something I'll think about.

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

It doesn't matter the way you're playing, especially the beginning of a grand slam. It doesn't change anything.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.