Quotes about Mindset

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. [Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

A form of self-delusion.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.