Quotes About Mindset

Why compound the problem by focusing your energy on things that are beyond your immediate control?

The only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy.

Cats are like witches. They don't fight to kill, but to win. There is a difference. There's no point in killing an opponent. That way, they won't know they've lost, and to be a real winner you have to have an opponent who is beaten and knows it. There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.

Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

It was impossible for him to get bored. He just didn't have the imagination.

Believe it. That was the way. Never stop believing. Fool the eye, fool the brain.

I think it is just a matter of getting into the mind of the writer," Vetinari went on, looking at a letter covered with grubby fingerprints and what looked like the remains of someone's breakfast. He added: "In some cases, I imagine, there is a lot of room.

Brutha tried to put it out of his mind, which was like trying to empty a bucket underwater.

Of course, like druids everywhere they believed in the essential unity of all life, the healing power of plants, the natural rhythm of the seasons and the burning alive of anyone who didn't approach all this in the right frame of mind.

it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Being a buisance is not something you should die of.

Les choses ne nous arrivent pas, c'est nous qui arrivons aux choses

Most people have some means of filling up the gap between perception and reality, and, after all, in those circumstances there are far worse things than gin.

The difference between fear and awe is a matter of our eyes adjusting.

Happy people are self-contained; they breathe different air and are subject to different laws of gravity.

ya mutlu olmay? seçeceksin ya da mutsuzluÄŸu. BaÅŸka kimse senin ad?na karar veremez.

The cure for her happiness was not bad luck, but to make her happier inside. Esmeralda

mindset drives and shapes all that we do—how we engage with others and how we behave in every moment and situation.

Developing an outward mindset is a matter of learning to see beyond ourselves. Our hope for you, the reader, is that this book will make such mindset change completely tangible to you and that you will achieve the results at work and at home that only an outward mindset can bring.

With an inward mindset, on the other hand, I become self-focused and see others not as people with their own needs, objectives, and challenges but as objects to help me with mine. Those that can help me, I see as vehicles. Those that make things more difficult for me, I see as obstacles. Those whose help wouldn't matter become irrelevant to me.

the biggest lever for change is not a change in self-belief but a fundamental change in the way one sees and regards one's connections with and obligations to others.

This book is about the difference between a self-focused inward mindset and an others-inclusive outward mindset. It will help you become more outward in your work, your leadership, and your life. It will guide you in building more innovative and collaborative teams and organizations. And it will help you see why you like many of the people you do and what you can do to become more like them.

When people focus on themselves rather than on their impact, lots of activity and effort get wasted on the wrong things.