Beliefs create reality

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

You have to expect things of yourself before you do them.

The leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was and how everybody involved in it was a loser.

There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon's not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a quite horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be and was wholly capable of being the president of the United States.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And ones that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The picture that we have of ourselves—our self-concept—will always determine how we respond to life.

Words are an extension of our thoughts, but we are our thoughts. Proverbs 23:7 says, "As [a man] thinks in his heart, so is he" (nkjv). God desires not to talk to you, but to "think" to you. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "I do what I see My Father doing" (John 5:19). The text implies, "I do what I mentally see My Father thinking.

Virtue, in this strict sense, is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices, requiring effort and concentration, to do something which is good and right but which doesn't "come naturally"—and then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required "automatically," as we say.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which boils down in popular discourse to saying that the very act of observing things changes the things you observe, works just as well, worryingly, when you look in the mirror.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.