Quotes About Attitude

the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life

Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset.

Never lose your sense of humor. Tomorrow could be worse.

Stoical' is the best word to describe her reaction to these compliments, Emma putting up with them as of they were one of my unfortunate foibles.

Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it.

There you go: Someone who puts «positive thinking» and «shit» in the same concept can inspire some serious eye-rolling if you're the type who works at keeping your thought-life healthy.

In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail—or if you're not the best—it's all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they're doing regardless of the outcome . They're tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues. Maybe they haven't found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them.

remarkable thing I've learned from my research is that in the growth mindset, you don't always need confidence. What I mean is that even when you think you're not good at something, you can still plunge into it wholeheartedly and stick to it. Actually, sometimes you plunge into something because you're not good at it.

Finding #2: Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They're informative. They're a wake-up call.

If you had to choose, which would it be? Loads of success and validation or lots of challenge?

If you're somebody when you're successful, what are you when you're unsuccessful?

Are there situations where you get stupid—where you disengage your intelligence? Next time you're in one of those situations, get yourself into a growth mindset—think about learning and improvement, not judgment—and hook it back up.

Yes, he was depressed, but he was coping the way people in the growth mindset tend to cope—with determination.

When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they're special. Even superior.

In the fixed mindset, setbacks label you.

The growth mindset allows people to value what they're doing regardless of the outcome.

Another way people with the fixed mindset try to repair their self-esteem after a failure is by assigning blame or making excuses.

The effort kids simply thought the difficulty meant "Apply more effort or try new strategies." They didn't see it as a failure, and they didn't think it reflected on their intellect.

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame.

the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

Mindsets are just beliefs. They're powerful beliefs, but they're just something in your mind, and you can change your mind.

fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you'll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving.

However, this point is crucial: The growth mindset does allow people to love what they're doing -- and to continue to love it in the face of difficulties.