Mindset Quotes

1. “I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.”

2. “I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.”

3. “If you work hard, have the right mindset, right intentions, things will fall into place.”

4. “To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.”

5. “Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned. You have to have that mindset that you have to work every single day. Learn every single day.”

6. “Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.”

7. “If you can build a muscle, you can build a mindset.”

8. “Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.”

9. “Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.”

10. “When there's a setback, someone with a fixed mindset will start thinking, 'Maybe I don't have what it takes?' They may get defensive and give up. A hallmark of a successful person is that they persist in the face of obstacle, and often, these obstacles are blessings in disguise.”

11. “Having the talent and having the right mindset together can make you unstoppable.”

12. “I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.”

13. “I used to doubt my ability and what I was capable of, and then I changed my mindset. It made me a better person, a better advocate, and opened doors for me to help instigate real change.”

14. “You try something, it doesn't work, and maybe people even criticize you. In a fixed mindset, you say, 'I tried this, it's over.' In a growth mindset, you look for what you've learned.”

15. “No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it.”

16. “Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.”

17. “If you are determined in your life, it is only the mindset that counts which is more important than questions like if I can do or cannot do.”

18. “My entire mindset is about getting better and growing.”

19. “You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.”

20. “We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.”

21. “There's always room for improvement. That's my mindset.”

22. “Growth hacking is a mindset, and those who have it will reap incredible gains.”

23. “Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.”

24. “Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I like to push people on certain topics. I like to dig into the stories where there's not necessarily a right or wrong answer.”

25. “If I stay in one mindset or place for too long, I get crazy.”

26. “'No fear' is a mindset that I stand for. It's the reason why I've got to where I am today.”

27. “It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.”

28. “At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.”

29. “The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.”

30. “I believe every person has a story that comes out from the way they talk, their opinion, their mindset and their body language.”

31. “Changing age old patriarchal mindsets is a difficult long process and involves constant communication and dialogue.”

32. “What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.”

33. “Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.”

34. “When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.”

35. “It's all about your mindset; it's how you think and what you believe, what you're ready for and prepare for, and how you're able to accept and surrender everything around you.”

36. “Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.”

37. “Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that's you experiencing life. You being yourself is you doing your purpose, so the more we get out of the mindset of thinking there's a certain way to go about things, the more free we become.”

38. “My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.”

39. “So much of our life is dictated by our mindsets. So much of it! Of how we think, we shall become.”

40. “I always try to find better ways to do things. Whether it's a game plan, a practice, a meeting, an interview, whatever it is. I'm going to find a way to find a way to analyze it and find a better way to do it. That's my mindset. I've never been satisfied with anything. That's just my mindset. I'm always trying to find a better way to do things.”

41. “We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.”

42. “It's all about culture. If you can get the right people with the right mindset, the right core values and the ability to change on a dime, then you have the ability to invest and do what's best for the health and long-term value proposition of the business.”

43. “I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.”

44. “I'm always trying to be in a positive mindset, no matter the situation.”

45. “I think the mindset is always to think that you are never going to play pain-free.”

46. “With a fixed mindset, you're so worried about how smart or talented you are, you don't take on challenges. You don't try new things.”

47. “There is no doubt that the Mindset failure is a major setback for Axovant, but it is not the end of the road.”

48. “Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.”

49. “When entire companies embrace a growth mindset, their employees report feeling far more empowered and committed; they also receive far greater organizational support for collaboration and innovation.”

50. “It takes different mindsets to do different things.”

51. “There are going to be ups and downs, but you have to have a steady mindset, regardless of the situation you're in.”

52. “My mindset is the same every game.”

53. “One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.”

54. “Sustainability is not just about adopting the latest energy-efficient technologies or turning to renewable sources of power. Sustainability is the responsibility of every individual every day. It is about changing our behaviour and mindset to reduce power and water consumption, thereby helping to control emissions and pollution levels.”

55. “As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.”

56. “With a growth mindset, kids don't necessarily think that there's no such thing as talent or that everyone is the same, but they believe everyone can develop their abilities through hard work, strategies, and lots of help and mentoring from others.”

57. “It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.”

58. “Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.”

59. “Life is just experience, whether it's good or bad, whatever you're doing you should learn from it if you've got the right kind of mindset.”

60. “Changing the game is a mindset.”

61. “I don't like asking people for things, so if I can do it myself, that's the mindset I have. My dad is very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, so I had a strong sense of independence.”

62. “People often confuse a growth mindset with being flexible or open-minded or with having a positive outlook - qualities they believe they've simply always had. My colleagues and I call this a false growth mindset.”

63. “When I joined Walmart, I just had a team mindset, but I look back on it now, and I realize some of those early jobs I had, I was trying to help other people and rally the team. It ended up people started looking at me as a leader.”

64. “As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.”

65. “By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions, and mindset needed to survive and prosper as a small open economy inside the euro area.”

66. “I traveled when I was super young, so my mindset was never like a typical 8-year-old.”

67. “We're always driven by our mindset and feeling on a particular show day, so you'll never know what you'll get until you see it happen in the ring.”

68. “All the big loud housey songs came from the idea of 'I want to create the same song over and over again.' Except that I've created each one in a different location, or a different mindset.”

69. “Creating organizations that value a growth mindset can create contexts in which more people grow into the knowledgeable, visionary, and responsible leaders we need.”

70. “Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.”

71. “Even going out to get milk becomes a little bit challenging, just because there is a whole entourage that then travels with me for this simple thing. So I tend to try and find ways not to inconvenience a whole raft of other people, so it changes my mindset a little bit.”

72. “There is a long history of research showing that people are overconfident about their abilities. But it turns out that people in general are not overconfident about their abilities; people with a fixed mindset are overconfident.”

73. “The biggest thing I learned from being in the special forces is the decision-making process and also the willingness not to give up. You need to have a certain mindset. I call it a positive mindset.”

74. “Sometimes in life, when bad things happen to us, or things aren't going our way, or we're faced with a challenge or a problem, it's how you look at the problem; it's how you do it to change your mindset, to dilute the negativity.”

75. “Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.”

76. “Mindset is important, I should always think about finishing games from any position.”

77. “The most difficult thing is changing people's mindset.”

78. “I don't just want to show how somebody might be wrong;I want to know why people believe the things they believe in the first place. I want to understand the mindset that would lead somebody toward the alt-right.”

79. “Overwhelm is, most often, a mindset. If you think about all the things you have to do, you'll be face down on the floor. It really helps to break it down into smaller pieces.”

80. “You can't just declare that you have a growth mindset. Growth mindset is hard.”

81. “Having a dope mindset and good energy is rare, and you just putting a little bit of your light into someone else can change their whole perspective on life just doing that.”

82. “My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”

83. “Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.”

84. “Innovation requires an experimental mindset.”

85. “Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it's just you, the ball, and the target.”

86. “I watch the ball, and I just play. I have always said that I don't feel there's a big difference between the three formats. It is just a mindset, applying yourself to the wicket and conditions, and that's always been the way that I have played.”

87. “The biggest thing you must remember is the mindset you have - what were the initial things you said to yourself as a young kid? Everything you said, that's who you are.”

88. “Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.”

89. “In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.”

90. “In my early work, my time in the batting cage, that's serious, and that's when I feel like I'm really working. That's where I have to lock in on my approach, make sure my mechanics are right, and make sure my mindset is right for the upcoming game. But then, when the game comes up, it's a game! You're supposed to have fun when you play games.”

91. “Maybe you don't know how to do something at work. Instead of asking the boss or seeking someone as a mentor, you might not want to show them your ignorance. So, you're depriving yourself of this learning and mentorship. All of these ways are ways that a fixed mindset will hold you back.”

92. “When someone endorses a fixed mindset, it can limit them, even if they're successful at the moment, because if they start struggling and tumbling, they can lose their confidence, but also, they may not create a growth mindset environment for others.”

93. “We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.”

94. “I believe everything happens for a reason, and you just keep working and striving and things will fall into place for you. That is my mindset.”

95. “I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.”

96. “For every job you require a kind of mindset. To be a teacher one should be knowledgeable. To be a software engineer you should know computer data system analysis, computer language etc. So, my mindset is not aligned with politics.”

97. “People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.”

98. “I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset.”

99. “At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.”

100. “I just had that mindset to never settle. That's a credit to my pops, too. He used to say 'the sky's the limit' every time we talked.”

101. “As the growth mindset has become more popular and taken hold, we are beginning to find that there are pitfalls. Many educators misunderstand or misapply the concepts.”

102. “I don't want to ever change my mindset and expect less of myself as a defender.”

103. “Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare. It's a mindset that gave us political talking points, not serious solutions.”

104. “I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.”

105. “We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion… by changing the mindset.”

106. “When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.”

107. “Everybody talks about, 'This guy is talented; that guy is talented.' The talent on the team and a lot of things in this game come down to focus, execution, not making a bad penalty. Really, that's not a talent issue. It's a focus issue; it's a mindset issue.”

108. “I don't think too much about mechanics. I just like to go up there and swing. It's more than my swing, though. It's my mindset. I always go to home plate with a plan.”

109. “A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.”

110. “From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.”

111. “I've tried to ease off putting the pressure on myself and I just try to go out and enjoy it and get into that mindset of not being too high or too low.”

112. “I'm of the mindset that God loves everyone.”

113. “I'm going to get better as a coach. Or at least I certainly hope to and plan to and need to work to, and have that as my mindset.”

114. “Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt… I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.”

115. “You have to always make yourself available and always be ready in your mindset.”

116. “My mindset as an athlete and as a man is to accept what God is asking me to do and to live my life expressing God's word.”

117. “That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.”

118. “I have a really positive mindset about everything.”

119. “Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area, but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait.”

120. “Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.”

121. “Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.”

122. “Yeah, I've never been afraid of any challenge, and I'm either all in or all out, because that's the mindset I've always had.”

123. “Being champion, there's a different mindset.”

124. “I like to get in the mindset of the honey badger when I go into contact. There's no doubts, no fears. If you can do that as a human, you're killin' it.”

125. “Every time, the mindset I get when I get on the floor is that I'm the best player on the floor.”

126. “Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.”

127. “The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.”

128. “Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.”

129. “Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.”

130. “The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.”

131. “The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.”

132. “To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.”

133. “I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?”

134. “Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.”

135. “When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.”

136. “This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.”

137. “I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.”

138. “Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.”

139. “I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.”

140. “The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.”

141. “When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.”

142. “Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.”

143. “When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.”

144. “But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.”

145. “You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch… passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.”

146. “We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.”

147. “In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.”

148. “Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'”

149. “I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.”

150. “There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.”

151. “If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.”

152. “I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.”

153. “I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.”

154. “'Never give in' was my mindset.”

155. “This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.”

156. “My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people.”

157. “The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.”

158. “I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.”

159. “Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.”

160. “We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.”

161. “Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I'm out there dealing with. I know what I'm out there dealing with. But when it comes to my mindset, I'm 100 percent.”

162. “You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.”

163. “I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.”

164. “True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.”

165. “As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.”

166. “'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.”

167. “In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.”

168. “My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky.”

169. “I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”

170. “I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.”

171. “I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.”

172. “One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.”

173. “Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.”

174. “It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.”

175. “Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.”

176. “Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.”

177. “It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.”

178. “Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?”

179. “I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.”

180. “The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.”

181. “I have found that the more I honored others, the more they honored me and the more fulfilling my career became. In the business arena, I have been surrounded by people with awesome skills. The difference between good and great is determined by the mindset you choose to bring to the work. The concept of honor should be part of that mindset.”

182. “Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.”

183. “I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.' So I'll have kids one day.”

184. “Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.”

185. “I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.”

186. “The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.”

187. “I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.”

188. “The most important thing for any athlete is to know his ability. If you know your ability and have even a little bit of a strong mindset, you can get success, because your ability takes you to success.”

189. “I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because that's how I like to live - where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it's our movie; we're together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness.”

190. “I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.”

191. “Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.”

192. “I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.”

193. “I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years… I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.”

194. “I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.”

195. “I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.”

196. “The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker.”

197. “Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.”

198. “There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet - as if the ocean somehow doesn't matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.”

199. “Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.”

200. “My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. I think it's just entertainment. For me, I've always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I've stuck to that, and I will also in the future.”

201. “I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we'll be good.”

202. “Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.”

203. “I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.”

204. “To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'”

205. “The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.”

206. “So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.”

207. “You can put someone in a new home, but you can't give them a new mindset.”

208. “As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven't been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.”

209. “I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.”

210. “Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.”

211. “In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.”

212. “What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.”

213. “I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.”

214. “For me, because I've been working out since I graduated college, I have to mix it up. But it's not just working out for health's sake; it's also a whole mindset for me. Yoga is really important for that.”

215. “To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.”

216. “I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.”

217. “My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don't know if that's ever gonna change.”

218. “As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.”

219. “I think for me, the thing that gets me in the right mindset is just watching something funny, something light, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is - when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows!”

220. “You hit one level of the sport, and then you want to get to the next level. Until, eventually, the Olympics becomes part of that dream, part of that goal set and the mindset of wanting to get there. And then you realize there's so much incredible hard work and determination and effort that you need to put in along the way.”

221. “As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.”

222. “People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.”

223. “I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.”

224. “When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.”

225. “I've got a guy in my office that works 24/7 to shut down websites that are putting 'Dead Air' on the net for free - ripping us off. The problem is many people are of the mindset that says, 'If I can watch it for free, I'll watch it.'”

226. “I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.”

227. “The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.”

228. “I recently did a play, Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout - I sat at a table and didn't have any costume changes. Following one character's arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset.”

229. “When people have a MakerBot, they have a different mindset from everybody else who grew up as a consumer. Instead of thinking, 'I need to go buy that,' they first think, 'Do I need to go buy that? I could just MakerBot that.'”

230. “In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.”

231. “I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You've just got to keep on grinding.”

232. “Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.”

233. “Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.”

234. “'Try Again' - every time I hear that song, it just brings a smile to your face. When you're feeling like crap, and you hear, 'Dust yourself off and try again,' it kind of just puts you in a different mindset, 100 percent.”

235. “Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.”

236. “I find it hard to write with writers sometimes because of their way of writing. Some are heavily focused on structure, but I have more of a 'Let's go with it' mindset. I like to be creative, and when I hear something that inspires me, I'll come up with a melody, a lyric to that melody, and take it from there. I try to keep it open.”

237. “The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.”

238. “30058 is the ZIP Code I grew up in in Atlanta, so the music represents where I'm from, and the mindset of '30058.' It's got a touch of reggae and a hip-hop feel. It's soothing, I think.”

239. “Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it's-not-over-till-it's-over mindset.”

240. “The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions… the two are not synonymous.”

241. “Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure.”

242. “I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led - working class, migratory - suited my personality. I had an adventurous mindset, and we lived on an Army base, then in South Dakota - it was a dynamic environment.”

243. “The second book was probably the result of the relationship I was in at the time. We were only going to be compatible for a minute, and I think we both knew it. It's like how you can be a different person on vacation, but you know all along you're just visiting that mindset.”

244. “With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.”

245. “When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.”

246. “Mr. Trump is proud to pay a lower tax rate, the lowest tax rate possible. He fights for every single dollar. That's the mindset you want to bring to the government.”

247. “In terms of, like, getting into a mindset, I use music all the time when I'm working.”

248. “Success is really about your mindset.”

249. “It was never fun being in the Ramones, which is the saddest thing of all, cause it shoulda been fun. It was probably fun when we played Performance Studio, and maybe some of the early gigs at CBGB's. But the Ramones were the type of group that had a bizarre mindset. Being in the band was so cut off from reality.”

250. “A dramatic spending increase to fund the SEC and the CFTC, as envisioned by the authors of the Dodd-Frank legislation, would further the mindset that our nation's problems can be solved with more spending, not more efficiency.”

251. “I'm just maintaining the same mindset that I had going into the 2012 Olympics and Olympic trials, which is just, whatever happens, happens.”

252. “We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to feel that refugees are a problem, but it's more than that. They're human beings, too. They were forced from their homes.”

253. “My mindset at this stage, especially after having a daughter… it's just changed my whole outlook.”

254. “Before I turned 30, through a lot of hard work and support, I won many badminton titles. But after turning 30, Lin Dan should change that mindset and start in a new direction and do things that are more meaningful.”

255. “You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you're preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field.”

256. “I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.”

257. “I've now got a 35,000-word document of quotes from people who hate me, a lot from the 'Guardian' comment threads. Mostly, I've managed to get myself into the mindset where the criticism is quite affirming.”

258. “I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa.”

259. “I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.”

260. “I'm unapologetic for the fact my Christian faith defines my decision-making process. I will bring those Christian principles and that mindset to Frankfort.”

261. “I'm always going to try to win with a positive mindset.”

262. “It was everyone going up there to swing for the fences, because the home runs were what would get them on 'SportsCenter.' That really changed the mindset of the players.”

263. “I just shot my first dramatic movie in France, and for those dramatic scenes that I shot, I would not want to look at those. There's a certain mindset you have to put yourself into for those scenes, and looking at the monitor would just take you out of it.”

264. “I have shifted my mindset in terms of how companies should… focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial.”

265. “While headlines are being generated about the Democrat mindset of nationalizing private businesses and bailing out failed ventures, we seem to be ignoring one of the most massive bail-outs ever: the taxpayer-funded process of transitioning people from analog to digital television.”

266. “For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.”

267. “I was acting before I did music, so it is an easier transition for me in my own mindset.”

268. “Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.”

269. “I was a defense attorney before I was a prosecutor, and so knowing what the defense is going to try to do is something that you have to do constantly when you're in trial. I always went to trial knowing what they were doing. So I was always in both mindsets anyway. 'Oh, they're going to do this, then I'm going to do that.'”

270. “I am not an outgoing person. I am a very aloof person who gives a lot to his work. It's very difficult to have a personal life with this kind of mindset.”

271. “You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.”

272. “You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.”

273. “I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight, and he basically said it's a mindset. What you do in between in your time off determines how you're going to look when you come in there.”

274. “I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.”

275. “My mindset is always to be victorious, to win the match.”

276. “I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.”

277. “I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.”

278. “Giving customers and prospects a glimpse into the entrepreneur's life and mindset can allow them to cultivate a deeper relationship with customers separately from the brand.”

279. “The mindset of a terrorist and the mindset of intolerance know no territorial boundaries when individuals are targeted either for their eating habits or for any other reason.”

280. “With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough in my mind. I will never be happy if I'm in that mindset, unless I get a review that starts: 'Once in a generation.'”

281. “I've always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say 'no' to because it's so easy to say 'yes.'”

282. “For far too long, Democrats have hailed themselves as the party of women. As Republicans, we know their so-called monopoly on being the party of women is false, and it is a mindset I intend to change.”

283. “We have to get out of the mindset that, 'If I invest $1 in crop insurance, I want to make sure I get a $1.10 or plus out of that.'”

284. “We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great.”

285. “The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process.”

286. “The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.”

287. “It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already… and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.”

288. “You know that thing where you're trying to do the crossword puzzle, and you're trying to fit the word that's in your head in the puzzle, and then you go 'Ugh!' and you walk away, and then it comes to you. I'm interested in that moment. The release of expectation, and the release of pleasing yourself and pleasing anybody. Breaking the mindset.”

289. “My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.”

290. “My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn't really my mindset until my rookie year.”

291. “I have the mindset of a mid-level guy or a minimum guy. My path here wasn't expected: my path wasn't that I was going to the NBA and making $16 million a year. So I identify more with those guys, and I want to be a voice for them. I want to help them elevate their status in the league. That's my goal.”

292. “The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of their mindset and convinced that it's the only reality. I find that worrying.”

293. “I think there's a tendency with some women especially to internalize and think, 'I have to be perfect at everything before I'm going to put myself out there.' We've got to change that mindset. And I think it starts with confidence.”

294. “I have long been of the mindset that aviators are like leather jackets - when they're perfect, they give you 'instant cool.' They're the Alexa Chung of sunglasses.”

295. “I've always had the upmost confidence in my abilities as well as the other guys in The Shield. We all have kind of have the same mindset as far as success, personally and professionally.”

296. “Self-control is needed in the age of technology. Folks have to apply their sense in reacting to different things. I don't appreciate perverse and venom-spewing mindset.”

297. “It's like if you have a bad day and you don't change your mindset, even if you go to buy bread at the supermarket, like, everything is so bad. It happens. I'm very negative. You have to change it.”

298. “I write in a journal daily. This extraordinary ritual has revolutionised my mindset, transformed my heartset, and generally influenced my life exponentially.”

299. “There's three things that are never good for a consumer mindset: uncertainty certainly, concern, and discordance.”

300. “When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.”

301. “There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.”

302. “The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation.”

303. “I couldn't relate to the mindset of people in my hometown. Since I had no educational qualification, I only got menial jobs in Delhi.”

304. “My songs are based on my keen observation. I have picked these situations from my surrounding and have presented a real situation about the youth and their mindset.”

305. “I have been fighting from a very young age. There is no fear there. It helped me cultivate the mindset of a fighter.”

306. “When we did our first record, my mindset was this is all going to be over tomorrow.”

307. “Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in.”

308. “People make a mistake thinking that two people with identical mindset gel well.”

309. “I love discussing my game with people who have similar mindsets.”

310. “When I was growing up, we would play a 10-over or 15-over game, and the asking-rate would always be high, and I would end up scoring 30 or 40 runs in 15 balls, so I built that mindset right from the beginning and still continue to bat in the same manner.”

311. “We never thought that there would be another Sachin Tendulkar. But Virat Kohli has changed this mindset. I think Virat can surpass Tendulkar's records.”

312. “There's a lot of different ways of playing quarterback, and there's a lot of different situations. So that's why, for me, if I can keep my mindset the same, if I can stay consistent in how I prepare, then I'm good.”

313. “It took me a month to get out of the mindset of O.J. But even now, still, I think it might have done something to my vocal chords. I went to see the doctor, and he was like, 'I don't see anything. You're fine.' But mentally, I might have broke a little bit.”

314. “When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.”

315. “I think we speak to a certain mindset, and it's about, you know, inspiring people who are progressive thinkers who want to see change.”

316. “I would like to fight as hard as I possibly can in each and every game and win or lose, leave it at that, and move forward. I know in my heart that that is the mindset I need to be a successful and happy athlete.”

317. “I think PR people are caught in this mindset of 'control of the message.' There's a lot more freedom if you give up control. If you allow people to say things that are genuine and admit mistakes and get on.”

318. “We can't have the mindset of becoming complacent with losing.”

319. “Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.”

320. “I think it's always good to get into your partner's mindset.”

321. “I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset.”

322. “I think that the culture at Stanford really shapes how you view the world, and you get a lot more out of an entrepreneurial mindset.”

323. “Talking to hosts and asking them, 'What does Airbnb mean to you?'… I get amazingly heartfelt stories about the people that they met, about the money that they earned, about the mindset of empowerment they got through this and how they then applied that to their own business.”

324. “The only difference between Compton and other cities is the ZIP Code, you know, and the mindset - it's just really about challenging people to take ownership of our community.”

325. “It was challenging getting myself into the mindset to lose the weight. Once I got there, the weight dropped off quickly.”

326. “The Millennial mindset is one on the pulse of changing technology. They multi-task and enjoy a challenge. They need projects that utilize their knowledge and skills that can connect with their philosophical or deeper interests.”

327. “I never had had a large group of friends, so I often felt a little out of place and like I was in a different mindset from everyone else around me because I was so focused on my acting career.”

328. “As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too.”

329. “At Harman, we had to reinvent ourselves so that we can compete on a global playing field. We did it by instituting a culture where teams can take calculated risks. But to inspire such a shift in mindset requires meaningful rewards across the ranks and freedom to experiment and innovate. I like to think of it as our courage culture.”

330. “I know firsthand that the characteristics of a great engineer - problem-solving skills, a deep understanding of technology, and a results-driven mindset - are the exact same things that any executive, in any industry, must have in order to succeed.”

331. “As female athletes all over the world have discovered the hard way, changing cultures and mindsets takes action.”

332. “You try to say every week that you're facing a faceless opponent. No matter who it is, you want to have the same mindset, no matter what type of game it is - first game of the season, last game of the season.”

333. “It's really easy as an actor just starting out to get into the mindset that you only get one break. But my parents have shown me that's not true.”

334. “In India, I personally believe yes, there is a clear fear of unknown; there's a lot of risk aversions in science and technology. They want predictability in everything they do, and it starts from people. It starts from investors. It starts from the regulators. You see that mindset across the society.”

335. “The United States is not just another country. It has more capacity and potential to influence the world than any other country - and no other country has the resources and mindset to lead a world that is not on autopilot.”

336. “If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.”

337. “That's what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession.”

338. “Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to.”

339. “Some guys are always gifted: Amazing length, amazing athleticism. But just put me in front of that guy. That's my mindset. I'm gonna battle.”

340. “I expect myself to be the best player I can be. I really believe I can be one of the best who's ever played. That's how hard I work. That's going to be my mindset no matter where I am or what I'm doing.”

341. “I've been able to contribute to a lot of winning teams in my lifetime. It just comes from my mindset. I've not focused on me individually; it's what the team needs.”

342. “I don't think that one should beat himself or herself over the head if immediately you're not like Jesus Christ or, you know, Gandhi or whoever. But I think the idea is to… to look at those examples and try to… try to operate in a way that every day you live or every interaction you have pushes you further along to operating with that mindset.”

343. “I approach my interviews with the mindset of, exactly what are we selling? How can I sell it the hardest and the most effectively in the fewest words possible? And how can I make each word that I say mean as much as it possibly can? And I bring that perspective to the table because I used to focus a lot on the character that I had to play.”

344. “With moderate physical training, you can control anything in your body. You don't have to be an athlete to do it, and this isn't just about people with disabilities - it's about everyone. You just have to have the willpower, the mindset, and the desire to want to better yourself.”

345. “My goal for the rap game is just to make a lot of really dope music. That's really where I keep my mindset at: Just being obsessed over making something crazy and new every day.”

346. “Obviously, my aspirations are to be considered one of the best. Like, anyone rapping should have that mindset.”

347. “We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly.”

348. “Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be dealt with, managed, and controlled.”

349. “While President Obama raised the hopes of Americans and Cubans alike with a forward-looking opening in diplomatic, commercial and people-to-people ties, President Trump is turning back the clock to a tragically failed Cold War mindset by reimposing restrictions on those activities.”

350. “My mindset was that I was always going to be in Toronto my whole career, but I was never naive.”

351. “Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here. Superstars, nobody wants to play in Canada. From Day 1, my whole mindset and approach to the game, being in Toronto, was I wanted to change that whole narrative to that whole organization.”

352. “With poker, you have a resolution of the hand within a couple of minutes. Whereas, even if the thought process in investing is very much the same, you're looking at an outcome that could be 2, 3, 4, 5 years from when you make the original decision. And the mindset related to that is very different.”

353. “When I was working on 'To Pimp A Butterfly' and 'DAMN.,' I'm really making music for Kendrick. It's a different mindset than when I'm making music for me. I'm trying to get into his head and figure out what he wants because it's his vision. That's what I expect from people when they're playing on my records.”

354. “Every business needs to get out of their own mindset and into the aspirational mindsets of their customers and clients and create services and products that are beyond their customers' imagination but will be what they 'gotta have' in the future.”

355. “I think being in the right mindset is a huge challenge for women, who often take an all-or-nothing approach to working out or eating well.”

356. “I'm very much in a mindset that I take myself out of anything that I'm not involved in.”

357. “I do enjoy a level of intensity that I bring when I'm the Demon, but it's a mindset that takes a couple of days to get into; it's not something I can do every day.”

358. “With the SEO value of Gawker, I could sell anything, including 'Gorilla Mindset' books. I would self-monetize. The way Alex Jones does it.”

359. “I want people to think of me as a 'Mindset' guy, a journalist, a commentator, a social media personality, a filmmaker, an author, but I got to - I have to pivot so far away from anything pro-Trump, I just got to keep going that way.”

360. “I didn't have the same biases on Trump that others had. I read his books and saw a man who had a strong mindset, a track record of succeeding, and who would make strong and sometimes offensive comments as a way to get media attention.”

361. “People who hate me call me a Twitter troll, which is laughable given my extensive body of work, which you can find on Amazon in the form of books like 'Gorilla Mindset' and my documentary on free speech, 'Silenced.'”

362. “Although I'm great at political commentary and journalism, it's not my passion. 'Gorilla Mindset' is.”

363. “Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.”

364. “Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on the negative end of the stereotype.”

365. “What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.”

366. “Chinese culture is already telling children to work hard. That's not growth mindset because they're working hard for the product, not for the growth or the joy of learning.”

367. “We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.”

368. “I open 'Mindset' with examples of kids who thrive on difficult challenges.”

369. “The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.”

370. “I grew up in an environment that promoted a very fixed mindset. It was an era that worshipped IQ and thought that your IQ was the most important thing in determining your future. My sixth-grade teacher even seated us around the room in IQ order.”

371. “I teach a freshman seminar every year, and we delve very, very deeply into their mindsets. They read scientific articles, but we also focus on what their mindset is, and they learn to recognize when they are in more of a fixed mindset, because we're all a mixture.”

372. “We're finding that many parents endorse a growth mindset, but they still respond to their children's errors, setbacks or failures as though they're damaging and harmful. If they show anxiety or overconcern, those kids are going toward a more fixed mindset.”

373. “Fighting for a job - that's been my mindset every Spring Training.”

374. “You're always still trying to win a job. That's everyone's mindset: come in here and fight for your job, win a job.”

375. “If you have a good music tone of the day, it puts everybody in the right mindset.”

376. “I've always had that mindset of, 'OK, I may be hot this month or doing really well this month, but don't get too high, don't get too low - just enjoy it.' Don't ride the rollercoaster, basically. I always thought about it like, I'm not going to an amusement park, I'm going to a baseball field.”

377. “That mindset never changes. It should never change. If you've been in the league for 14 years or been in the league not even a day, you should have that mindset that you're going to go out there and prove yourself and earn a spot.”

378. “If I came in with the mindset of just being happy that I got drafted and just to settle for a backup job, that wouldn't be myself.”

379. “Before the game, getting guys in the right mindset and confident - you play well when you're confident. People can say 'cockiness' or whatever, but there are results when you play with a confidence and you believe in yourself.”

380. “I used to have the mindset of worrying about everybody else's opinions, trying to please everybody, but that's not going to happen.”

381. “When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.”

382. “I feel it's better we have an open mindset to see what exactly we are trying to say. In 'Mulk,' we have not criticised any community, and neither have we said any community is good or bad. We have just shown the true picture and left it to the audience to make the choice.”

383. “I know how good I am, and I know where I can go if I'm in the right mindset and respecting my opponent.”

384. “As an actor, if you want to explore something new inside you, you need to do something different that you don't do in your regular life. You need to think in a different way. It is my duty to think like the character that I am given and believe in his mindset; only then I will be able to portray it.”

385. “In film business or any business, for that matter, there are people with different mindsets. Some would be compassionate and respectful, some might just be the womaniser, but how can we generalise that? That is wrong, I guess… That way, in a male-dominating society, shining is tough for women.”

386. “Wrestling has to be more aggressive. It has to be bigger; it has to translate to the back of a football stadium. With acting, when that camera is up close, they can see your nose hairs twitch, and you have to pull back everything for it not to look clownish. There is that different mindset.”

387. “I do kind of marvel at my journey. But at the same time, I look back at a lot of the steps, and maybe not every step, but a lot of the steps, and since I was 12 or 13, I look at the people who helped me and the moments that were inspirational to me, and you can recall what my mindset and what my make-up was at that time to try and be the best.”

388. “I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper.”

389. “I have a street mind. My whole mindset when I first got to the NBA was, 'I'm bringing that street to the game,' and, 'I'm going to be the hardest guy on the court; I'm going to be the hardest guy on the planet.'”

390. “I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.”

391. “As a studio executive, I took the approach that people are competent until proven otherwise. But when you make a movie, because there is so little time to fix things when they break, you have to almost come to it with the mindset that everyone is incompetent until proven otherwise.”

392. “I feel like you can dominate a game in so many ways. That's just always been my mindset, just play ball. Be a basketball player, and everything will fall into place.”

393. “I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.”

394. “I think our sport evolves as the talent evolves and the mindset evolves.”

395. “I hate the fact that, all of a sudden now, it's not cool to go to the Gator Bowl. Are you kidding me? I don't like that mindset.”

396. “Fans can have whatever mindset they want to have. But I don't want anything to creep into the culture of our program, because our players, they get stuff pushed at them - social media.”

397. “My personal dressing is inspired by my mood and mindset. I can jump from a girl-next-door to runway queen. I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans kind of a woman. But I also enjoy the red carpet look.”

398. “When people talk about me, they talk about just the arm and that I have a big arm. I want to be able to change that mindset to, 'He's a great quarterback who just happens to have a great arm.'”

399. “No matter what, you got to come in, and you got to continue to work, continue to have that mindset to get better every single day.”

400. “My mindset is to go out there and be confident, believe in yourself, visualizing success and visualizing plays you're gonna make in games.”

401. “I have this mindset and mentality every time I touch the score, and I really truly believe that. It's something I try to do a little too much.”

402. “I feel like New York built me - it made my mindset really strong. I give props to New York for making that happen.”

403. “I feel somewhere there is a fault in this whole mindset of not accepting the natural process. To age gracefully, to accept life with grace has more beauty and charm. But you have to be fit and healthy. And that is something we should strive for.”

404. “I felt like people who had a lost mindset or who occasionally did stupid things were having a 'donkey' moment, or some of them are permanent donkeys, so I just started calling them donkeys. So when I went to Philly to do my own morning show, that's when I first started doing 'Donkey of the Day.'”

405. “We try each and every week to win. We know what's at stake, but every coach has that mindset, so it's not easy.”

406. “I got a whole different mindset from living in Senegal and being there. I learned a lot of things, met a lot of people, and got to really find out what I wanted to work for and who I want to be and who I want to help and who I'm doing it for.”

407. “Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you're pregnant.”

408. “I'm familiar with that magical mindset during sporting competition where one feels completely zoned in on what's happening. There are occasional nights in poker when the mists have cleared, and I just know what my opponents' cards are. Everything at the table is slow, loud, and easy. The rest of the world is silent.”

409. “Cinema has the power to change the society. Through my films, the kind of characters I have played and will play, I am trying to do my bit in changing the patriarchal mindset.”

410. “We just have to be in the mindset that we are going to be winning games.”

411. “Try to be on every pitch, try to be in the moment, and try to think every ball's going to come at you, no matter if it's not, but trying to get that mindset going.”

412. “I'm out here for opportunity and championship and a belt that spells my name, but on a bigger stage, my bigger goal, my mindset is to completely eliminate any doubt in some of the minds that, 'Hey I don't want to take my dream to WWE. Where I'm from, what I believe in, it could cause any trouble.'”

413. “Everyone in Manchester in general has a positive mindset.”

414. “What features in a midfielder am I after? Players who have the mindset to win every game - then we can start to talk about the technical quality.”

415. “My mindset is to come in and compete.”

416. “My mindset is I'm a quarterback. But I love being on the field.”

417. “My mindset's just focused on looking forward, bettering myself, getting on the pitch, on the training pitch, doing what I can do to improve myself.”

418. “In your mindset, you just have to know there's going to be another opportunity, and you have to keep focused.”

419. “Since one of my roles is that of a con man, I actually mingled with a few pickpockets in north Chennai to get a hang of their body language and mindset.”

420. “Nobody will hold it against him if he cancels the fight with Dereck Chisora - the public aren't interested in that fight; nobody knows who he is. It is pretty sad but shows the mindset of Wladimir Klitschko and why he will go down in history as a heavyweight who just fought the worst possible people out there.”

421. “If we have given everything we can, you are not settling for mediocrity because the better team won. Sometimes you have to have that mindset to be able to improve rather than keep telling yourself you should have won.”

422. “It doesn't matter my size. It's more a mindset. That's what people don't understand. It's the size the media talks about, but they don't know my heart.”

423. “Scepticism may be evidence of a healthy and independent mindset; but conspiracism is a virus that feeds off insecurity and bitterness.”

424. “Our mindset is not such that we will remain in power till eternity.”

425. “When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.”

426. “I'm more about mind over muscle. My mindset needs to be the fittest, because it drags my body through whatever needs to be done. A lot of people neglect training their mind and their self-belief, but I believe that's crucial.”

427. “Regardless of what the stakes are, our attitude and our mindset doesn't change.”

428. “Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.”

429. “When you change team, and you have the right mindset and a coach who respects you, everything becomes easier.”

430. “If you go in there with a mindset that you're gonna turn things around and make that contagious, and people start to believe in it, you can turn into a winning program wherever you go.”

431. “My mindset, when it came to wrestling, was more the reasons why I could, not the reasons why I couldn't, which is how you should look at, like, everything in life.”

432. “Loans are a different experience for everyone, but the mentality you have to have is not to feel relaxed. You have to have a mindset that you're going to try harder and work harder than anyone.”

433. “I go into each game with the same mindset of showing people what I can do and letting the rest take care of itself.”

434. “I approach every match with that mindset, that this guy is trying to beat you, and it will change his life if he does.”

435. “I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.”

436. “I tried to convince those guys at the Bullets in the '95-'96 season that they could try to beat the mighty London Towers, who won everything the year before. I got out of bed every day with the mindset of getting the team to Wembley for the play-off final and to win the championship.”

437. “Me, as a woman of the trans experience, I'm not able to have children biologically. And I have always been someone who was very, very… I wanted to have a traditional family, as a young kid. The wife and the kids and, you know… as I grew older, times changed, and my mindset changed.”

438. “I've really fired a lot of managers that had that mindset or publicists that had that mindset of, 'Oh, you need to go on a date with this person because it's going to help album sales.' No thank you. That's not my flow.”

439. “Fun is only possible if you have a mindset that allows it.”

440. “You'll always find that goalkeepers are a team within the team, and I've always had good relationships with the others, which is important because nobody understands the mindset of a goalkeeper like the other goalkeepers.”

441. “I chose Juventus for their winning mindset.”

442. “Both of my parents were both multi-sport athletes. Their mindset was, be an athlete as long as possible, up until they became parents. And so they dropped their dreams for their children.”

443. “When you are thinking about going away for a long duration mission, it has to be part of your mindset that you're leaving your family, but it's for the right reasons, for good reasons, and hopefully helping humanity.”

444. “My mentality has always been focused around the mindset that you have to earn everything. So even if you get told that you're going to play, I take that with a pinch of salt and respect all the comments, but for me, I have to earn my place.”

445. “Crimes against women are growing day by day. Despite this, the mindset of our leaders, politicians, or judicial system is not changing.”

446. “You may have to change how you guard somebody because of how they play. But the mindset stays the same - making people uncomfortable, making them do what you want them to do instead them dictating on offense.”

447. “From a personal standpoint, my ability to play all around the wicket is more mindset than anything else.”

448. “My mindset in all three formats, in any situation, is exactly the same. I just want to get myself in, get myself a nice foundation to hopefully attack and dominate the bowlers.”

449. “It's important to make sure your players have the mindset that playing international cricket is still the ultimate form of cricket.”

450. “You can't be chasing 338 and still have 5 wickets in the end. It's about mindset and the way you look at the game.”

451. “When I was 12 there was a big shift in mindset and I realised that if I want to get something out of it then I need to work hard and focus all my energy just for this sport and that's when I started training and taking things more seriously. I became a lot more self-critical and analysed the driving more and more, and that was when I was 12.”

452. “For sure, some things have changed with the way I feel about things, like my mindset and everything. But you always learn every year about your mindset and what works for you.”

453. “The pressure is always there to make good films, but that is more from your mindset, either you have it or you don't have it.”

454. “Being a player that plays multiple positions, that's my mindset every single day because I don't have the luxury of just being really good at one thing.”

455. “Especially going from an attacking player to a defensive player, your whole mindset has to change. You have to work on one-v-one defending versus one-v-one attacking.”

456. “I feel like I am definitely an attacking player. I don't really know where specifically that is, whether it's centrally or out wide. I do feel like I just naturally have a mindset to go to goal or create goals or things like that.”

457. “My mindset is always focused, which goes up on match days.”

458. “It's flattering to be compared to Kohli. He is very consistent, and his mindset is very good. He gives his 100 per cent every time he walks out to bat.”

459. “We were able to dominate the world in the '90s because the World Cup victory completely transformed us and changed our mindset.”

460. “Virat has helped me with my preparation, mindset, and he has given me a lot of confidence.”

461. “I trained alongside full-grown men at college and worked with some great male keepers. It helped me 100% with speed of play, speed of reactions, and strength. The mindset they gave me was invaluable.”

462. “I think the work ethic will take me wherever I want to go in life. It's my mindset that determines how, when, and if I'll get there.”

463. “When you are injured you have to keep a positive mindset and keep moving forward.”

464. “I think the Indian media suffers from a feudal mindset.”

465. “I have my limited skills as a journalist and a father, and the journalist part is really part of my mindset, to use my skills to try to solve problems.”

466. “It's a totally new mindset - I'm completely dedicated to living a new, healthy lifestyle. It's given me a whole new view on life.”

467. “The problem in business isn't that women are overlooked because they are women, it's that most people subconsciously look to employ a mini-me. It's not a gender issue, it's about diversification full stop. It's hard to change that mindset and it hits women particularly hard because men historically have always been the recruiters.”

468. “Indian audience has a mindset that a movie which does well at film festivals will necessarily be slow and boring.”

469. “You know, I think the idea of activism, more so a revolutionary mindset, is something that has been with me for most of my life, especially since I was about 16 years old.”

470. “My experience with Australia in the 1997 Ashes series taught me that fighting back is a combination of technique and mindset.”

471. “I've always said I don't mind where I bat and I have exactly the same mindset when I'm batting seven as I would at five.”

472. “I have nothing against employment but it seems that our school system is too focused on training good employees but not good entrepreneurs. There should be a balance. We should learn from the entrepreneurial mindset of the Chinese.”

473. “Whatever you're trying to do, wherever you're trying to go in life, whatever you got your mindset on, stay there.”

474. “We will have a lot of video sessions and it will get mind-blowing for the guys. The training sessions are forcing you to be really concentrated and therefore I want them to discuss it, for them to come to me. It is all about input, it's about mindset.”

475. “If I wasn't aiming to break into the Arsenal first team, that wouldn't be the correct mindset.”

476. “I think everything starts with a mindset, and I learned that from a young age.”

477. “Islam really brought a discipline to my life that I didn't really have before. My old mindset was if they ain't helping me, I ain't helping them, but you can't live life that way.”

478. “People have a certain mindset about me, they know me to be a very serious person as I don't party much nor am I overtly active on social media but there is more to me than what is imbibed in their minds.”

479. “When you hear Beast Mode, you automatically go to my size, but I always say the strongest thing I own is not my chest, my legs, not my arms. It's my mind. It's that mindset that says: Look, you're not always going to succeed but don't take it as a loss, take it as a lesson. That's the mindset of Beast Mode.”

480. “That's sort of my mindset, more than anything else, whenever I get into anything new. I'm in this constant pursuit for new knowledge. I think I sometimes focus more on all the things that I don't know and what I'm trying to figure out.”

481. “There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.”

482. “We need to look through the lens of disparities whether it's with health or housing or other issues for the LGBTQ community. It's beyond just marriage, right? We need to get into that mindset in terms of where are these disparities and how do we address them.”

483. “It's my mindset that I'm not where I want to be. I still want to be better, and I just want to stay humble about it. It's not an act. It's just how I am.”

484. “You never want to be in a defensive mode or have a defensive mindset. You always want to know that you're in control as the pitcher, you make him get hits, you're never passive, always aggressive. If I get beat, I want it to be because I got rocked, got hit hard, never because I walked a couple of guys and before you know it.”

485. “I use the period between Christmas and New Year to potter about, think and completely change my mindset. In that easy no-man's-land between Boxing Day and New Year, loins are girded and mettle readied. It is time, as we voyagers bid farewell to the old year, to fare forward.”

486. “I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.”

487. “You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.”

488. “If you get back into the beginner mindset, you can unearth an energy and a fire that I didn't know I could even still possess.”

489. “The more you boo me the better I'm going to wrestle. You don't like me? So what. It's a lot of fun to work like that and wrestle with that mindset.”

490. “I am more into fine-tuning, mindsets, and how you play the game. Very rarely will I go and tinker with a player unless I think it is needed.”

491. “As an opener, your mindset has to be different. When you need to open in Tests, you might get out in the first 10 balls.”

492. “Opening is about the mindset. You got to respect the new ball.”

493. “In India, we don't have a culture of sports. We don't have a culture of an active lifestyle or exercise. If we want to change this mindset, women are the key. That's why we started the Pinkathon.”

494. “The government is talking about developing smart cities and to them, smart cities mean infrastructure. But to me, a city is smart when the mindset of the people is conducive to fitnness and health.”

495. “It takes time to change a system and to change a mindset.”

496. “We're always trying to elevate the platform of Christian and gospel music, church music, worship music and not just elevate it to our comfortable corner of the earth that we maintain an international and global mindset for what we're doing.”

497. “In general, I think we're more or less shaped and formed by our late 20s. Things come along during that time that make us cynical. By the time you're in your 30s, it's hard to unpick those mindsets that have formed. It takes years of therapy to undo them.”

498. “I think I maximised my opportunity at Bolton, changing the mindset of the people from when I arrived till the time I left.”

499. “There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are bringing up someone. If you are going to differentiate between a boy and a girl from age zero, then he is bound to grow up with the sense of entitlement.”

500. “You've got to have a winning mindset.”

501. “I've seen a lot of brands fail because they went, 'Hey, look, we're from New York, and that's what we're all about.' But wherever you go, people are proud of where they are. So even though we're from New York, what we do is a mindset: it's got to work in Japan, in Los Angeles, London, wherever.”

502. “Coach Wilks really embraces that growth mindset and trying to learn and grow every day so he's a good fundamental teacher. He understands the passing game which is important when you coach as a defensive coordinator and also as a secondary coach like he has, so he's one of the top-notch coaches in our business.”

503. “But if you look at Victoria's Secret models, honestly, young girls don't necessarily look up to them for the healthiest reasons. It's more about the envy, the desire to look aesthetically best: it's an unattainable, elitist mindset.”

504. “I've always been of that mindset - when you're writing tunes with people, there's a traditional way of chopping things up, and then there's the way that feels right. If people contribute, you hit 'em accordingly.”

505. “If you're athletic and you can run, you can play defense. It's a mindset.”

506. “I don't take a backseat to nobody. That's just my mindset.”

507. “We have to have that mindset that whoever comes in our house can't win and it has to be the hardest place to play.”

508. “First, confidence in your talent and then confidence that the team is going to look for you, because they need you. And when you reach that point, it changes a lot, because your mindset is completely different.”

509. “I'm just going to continue focusing on becoming a better football player, attacking the offseason with the mindset of getting stronger and doing everything that I can to show that when the time comes, I'm ready to play football.”

510. “Approach each day with the same mindset that your opportunity can come within a blink of an eye.”

511. “I had that mindset that I feel that I am the best prospect in the draft, but everything happens for a reason.”

512. “I've just got the mindset of really wanting to open the game up to new people. I kind of want to create a massive attention around snooker.”

513. “I've tried to be more mature and my mindset is a lot different now.”

514. “As far as practice, I get those mental reps. I don't have to physically be out there. It's just a mindset and a mentality.”

515. “You just have to put in the work. Work really hard, get a good coach and a good gym. You have to have the right mindset to be a champion. Don't make excuses on going to the gym like your ankle is sore or what.”

516. “WWE always thinks in a business mindset.”

517. “One of my goals is to become the perfect player but you'll never reach that goal if your mindset is not right, I think.”

518. “So did my time on Broadway after the Xscape tour doing 'Chicago'. Performing eight times a week put in the mindset of being onstage again.”

519. “Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.”

520. “In college from my freshman year to my sophomore year, I always got better, and that's just my mindset.”

521. “It's the same mindset I had in college. As long as I come in and work every day, it worked in college and I'm just going to continue to grind my tail off here in the NFL.”

522. “It really didn't matter how much work I had to put in… I was always going to give my best. And I think that if a lot of kids can realize that, and stick with that mindset, they won't get so stressed about certain things, and they can just live and play freely.”

523. “That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.”

524. “The older I've got, the better my relationship with my body has become, and that's because of my mindset.”

525. “The impact of digital and technology without a shared success mindset can be very detrimental to communities around the world.”

526. “Youngsters in Punjab have a borrowed mindset, music and fashion sense from Canada and Hollywood because a large number of our relatives are settled abroad.”

527. “My mindset has changed to think about what I can eat to become a better athlete, not just a bigger one.”

528. “FTII had people from all over India and abroad and they had a different mindset. They would talk about world cinema and there I was - the only foreign films I had watched were probably Arnold Schwarzenegger's and dubbed in Hindi at that!”

529. “That's kind of what my mindset has always been, just focus on every day, and making the most of each day.”

530. “For so long, Arab culture has been misconceived by the western mindset as exotic, or more recently, as dangerous, so spaces like Mathaf are vital for asserting a sense of connectedness.”

531. “I go to the gym with a mindset to fix myself, never to break myself down.”

532. “I changed my body, changed my mindset in the game, and I was able to accomplish a win while playing a completely different style of golf. And it's pretty amazing to see that. I hope it's an inspiration to a lot of people.”

533. “Probably more than half my life, I've thought from a trap mindset, a hood mind frame in the way I was moving.”

534. “I've come over so many obstacles over the years, so now when things get chucked at me, I know that I can get through to the other side with the mindset that I've got.”

535. “We've got to have that mindset that we've got to close out games and go up by more than two scores to really shut out the opponent and just take away all their confidence.”

536. “Being a wrestler, it can get rough in terms of your mindset, just having that mentality embedded in you where you just wanna go, go, go, 100 miles per hour, always redlining your body and never actually taking the time out to let your body recover the right way. As I got older, I started to realized that less sometimes is more.”

537. “I see all these professional photographers out at the racetrack, and there's all these people across the world, taking really cool pictures and you're like, 'Man, I want to create that!' I had that mindset when I first grabbed a camera.”

538. “I get out in the 'hoods. I want to go to the worst, the grimiest places. That's where I want to be. Those are usually the kids or the communities that kind of get left behind or forgotten about. I feel like I was in that situation at one point. That's where my mindset is and that's what I stand for.”

539. “I know my mindset. I know how hard I work at my craft.”

540. “Urban planning should be done with the mindset that we are determining the city's fabric for 100 years to come.”

541. “We're all trained as actors to approach our characters with no prejudice, and take on the mindset and the spirit of the character in a way that allows the vulnerability and the truth to come out naturally.”

542. “In the beginning I used to say, 'I'm healthy, my cholesterol's fine, I don't have high blood pressure, I don't have diabetes.' By telling people that you see a doctor, and telling people that you're healthy, it's perpetuating the abuse against bigger bodies and the mindset that we owe it to people to be healthy.”

543. “For me, it's always about using my platform to give people an alternative narrative, because we all need to upgrade our mindsets.”

544. “I think my mindset is probably the most important thing. Being able to stay positive through whatever injury I had or whatever situation I was going through and focusing on the best player and the best teammate I can be.”

545. “I have that mindset going into anything I do, there's always room to improve, you can always do better.”

546. “In perfect conditions, with a championship mindset and ready to peak, anything is possible.”

547. “I've always been a little kid compared to the guys I've competed against in terms of body development. I've always looked a lot younger, so naturally my body got a bit bigger and stronger. I combined that with a good work ethic, good mindset and focus.”

548. “My father, he's meant so much to me. He's always on me to be thankful and humble to everyone who's helped me and helped the team be successful. There were many things that he said and preached throughout my life that are now part of my mindset. It's a big part of who I am.”

549. “Just knowing you can get into a cage and do that is part of how the mindset of a fighter can be applied to pretty much any situation really.”

550. “I have never been in a race where I would do anything to be here. That's a lethal mindset with which girls enter the film industry.”

551. “No one was happy about me entering the entertainment industry because I belong to a Syed family. But I believe no profession is a bad profession, rather it's all about the mindset.”

552. “100 percent, I'm a natural athlete. From when I was younger, I played so many different sports and I've got a competitive mindset.”

553. “My mindset is I don't need to worry about the noise. I got my team and my brothers with me.”

554. “To know through my struggles, 'My coach still believes in me,' does a lot for your mindset.”

555. “I think anyone can actually sing. It's the mindset. Singing is imitation.”

556. “I try to have the same mindset in my practices as I would for my fights.”

557. “I went into the audition room with the mindset that 'Little Fires' was going to be my last audition. I put my all into it, but I didn't get my hopes up.”

558. “Someone like Harry Kane, I can tell you that his mindset will be: 'I'm staying at Tottenham, I'm going to break every single record, I'm going to captain this club into the new stadium.' When you've got a player like him with that mindset, I don't think Tottenham have to worry.”

559. “I really wanted to step up my defense night in, night out. So that's my mindset, just playing defense and trying to be consistent with that.”

560. “When I see somebody, I try to beat him on both ends of the floor. It's the game within the game that you've always got to win. That's always been my mindset. That's how I was taught how to play the game. That's how I learned. And that's what I enjoy.”

561. “I had a persistent mindset that I was going to make something happen for myself.”

562. “I've always been of the mindset that relationships can be different and relationships can go bad with different people. That doesn't mean they're going to be a bad relationship with me.”

563. “My job, as I've said, is to break down sectionalism, vested interests and a fixed mindset of merely following precedents, so that I'm not subjected to the harmful effects of factions.”

564. “Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.”

565. “If you look at our domestic scores in T20s, it is generally around 110-120. I think we all need to go back, step up our domestic circuit, take those scores to 140-150. If that is happening then all the batters will come with the same mindset of playing a fearless brand of cricket.”

566. “I have to believe in my process and I know I follow a certain pattern to score runs. I have to believe that I will be getting runs if I have a certain mindset and I know I will.”

567. “Back in the '60s, '70s, my mindset and the way I play would be perfect.”

568. “I have to have the mindset of Vito Corleone in everything I do.”

569. “One needs to be of a mindset that to be champions of the world anyone can be beaten, and that's what we want, what we dream about.”

570. “I'm a Tom Brady guy to the fullest. I love the way he manages the game, his mindset. He always works with less. He doesn't always have the best receivers, but he's going to make it work.”

571. “This is the NBA; you can't stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They're going to work for every point they get. And that's my mindset.”

572. “My whole thing when I got in the NBA was I want to win a championship. The mindset hasn't changed.”

573. “If I can positively affect the team, then it also works for myself. That's really my mindset.”

574. “Since childhood, my mind was wired like that. My mindset was I want to be a businessman.”

575. “In every investment, before I get involved or invest, I always see what the mindset of the founder, the CEO, is.”

576. “The one mindset I have is this title - title or bust.”

577. “I'm trying to leave a legacy, man. I'm trying to get a gold jacket someday. That's my mindset.”

578. “I was a No. 9 for so long and that's what I knew. And I think, me as an attacking midfielder, or any kind of midfielder, I should be in and around the box and have that mindset that I'm going to score and help my team as much as possible.”

579. “They really allow you to play overseas. They let you play through everything - holding, grabbing, illegal screens, tough hand-checking and tough defense. Playing overseas for five years, that's all I knew. When I got to the Rockets, I brought that same mindset.”

580. “I have the mindset of a coach. I have to think, what would a coach think? How would a coach feel if I'm playing a guy a certain way?”

581. “To me it seemed in college ball, guys are more hungry. It's for a different circumstance when you're talking about playing for money and playing for heart. Not saying that guys in the NBA don't play for heart, but once you get that money, you're under a different mindset.”

582. “Not saying that guys in the NBA don't play for heart, but once you get that money, you're under a different mindset. But when you're trying to get there and get on this level, you're more hungry.”

583. “Music does help me a lot with my character, with the fact that I have to have a really good theme song, something that I can get into while I'm walking down the ramp. It puts me into that mindset that I'm going into a mosh pit.”

584. “When you permit yourself to lose for more than 30 minutes then it can carry over to the next day. I think it's important to understand that. I think that mindset is contributing.”

585. “It was a tricky one as I had other clubs interested in me, not as big as United. I wasn't guaranteed game time anywhere, so why not take this opportunity at the biggest club in the world? If it doesn't work out, I can always go somewhere else. That was my mindset at the time.”

586. “I've always had the mindset, even on independent shows, that even if the audience knew who I was, I was treating it as if they didn't. Every time I want to teach them who I am and show them what I'm about.”

587. “Look, I think playing the way I played, and knowing the game the way I know it, I think I'm going to have a better idea as to what the mindset of each player was.”

588. “There was a lot of disappointment and rejection that came really early in my life, until I had to change my mindset and become even stronger.”

589. “My mindset has changed. When I was fighting guys like Glover I was second-guessing myself. Am I the best in the world? Do I deserve to be up here. Now I know it.”

590. “We need to change our mindset and understand that the protection of our democracy is a national security issue. When any country interferes with your democracy, they are attacking you.”

591. “I've worked in a lot of elections and it can feel like you're fighting a battle. You get into a mindset of 'we've got to win. If they're doing it, we're going to do it too.'”

592. “I am playing the character of a grandmother in 'Doctor Don' which is completely different from my previous roles. My character is dashing, carefree and has a bindaas mindset. She loves to live her life happily.”

593. “That's a big part of who I am - developing mentality, mindsets.”

594. “During the BSP regime, many schemes were started in the name of prominent saints belonging to different castes. However, these schemes were renamed when SP came to power reflecting its casteist mindset.”

595. “I had a positive mindset that whenever I will get the chance I will contribute to the team's cause.”

596. “No matter how hard it got, I've always been fortunate enough, thinking I'm actually lucky to be here.' I always took that mindset.”

597. “Sometimes you can't even defend 350 and sometimes, you can defend even 250. It's all about mindset.”

598. “It's probably the ethos of our program - like, you learn from the past but never dwell on the past. It's just a mindset of we don't wallow, we don't worry… we just attack.”

599. “There's people that believe tempo is the star. There's people who believe the system is the star. There's people that believe the players are the stars. I come from that mindset.”

600. “When we started with Ring of Honor, when we started with TNA, there was a very similar mindset that we were building something, that we were doing something good.”

601. “It was very hard leaving the people I was very close to. But you also have to value opportunities that come. I had a strong mindset to withstand that and come alone to Spain.”

602. “Instead of doing cardio before I lift, as I usually do, I might do it first, doing 35 to 45 minutes of lifting before I get on the elliptical. Suddenly, it feels fresh and new and different, and that can be enough to give me a new outlook and improved mindset.”

603. “Try to walk into the gym with the mindset that you're going to do a different thing every day. Whether that means a new exercise, a new order for your routine, a new pace, or more resistance, your body will help you get out of that rut.”

604. “To win a championship, you need an unselfish mindset.”

605. “I want to be able to inspire and motivate others. Show people that you can do whatever you set your mindset to.”

606. “If you're in a current mind state where you know what you want from the track, you can't just leave it and expect to come back with the same mindset.”

607. “Engineers have a certain mindset of how they approach problem solving. That's basically what engineers are: problem solvers. You identify the problem. Then you design a process to solve the problem. Then you execute the process and repeat it over and over until you get it right.”

608. “It's difficult for your mindset when you don't know what you're training for.”

609. “I think the mindset is supposed to be not who will play on the court, but can you be prepared yourself, and set your mind that you will be working all the time? You know when you come into a game, you want to help a team and do your thing.”

610. “My theory for a good interview is to listen to a person and react. I would always ask a question that was pertinent to the mindset of the talent, whether it was who they were going to meet, where they were going to meet them, and what they were going to do.”

611. “I was in a play just outside of London and started auditioning for 'Sex Education,' but I just completely had the mindset that it's a Netflix show, they're not gonna hire me anyway.”

612. “My mindset is to go out there to do anything I can to help out my teammates, be that garbage guy like that. I think I've been very crisp from that standpoint. I've played with some great guys and some great teams and some not so good teams, but I think I've drawn a lot from those experiences.”

613. “If I would remain in Chicago, I'd be happy doing what I can to help out. That's pretty much how my mindset has been playing anywhere.”

614. “You have to go in with a mindset, just if you're open you're going to shoot your shot.”

615. “I think that type of mindset, no matter if you're 16-0, you're rolling through the playoffs, no matter what the situation is, there's always going to be somebody that's doubting you or saying something about you. I think for certain guys individually, it may be something that kind of gives you that extra kick.”

616. “If I changed the mindset of some players or my mindset helped some players to be better - maybe. But I don't think it was me changing anything for the club because playing for Manchester United means playing with the pressure, playing with the responsibility.”

617. “Growing up in Texas, I was already dealing with the fact that I didn't even know I was Asian until a certain age. I just was informed about it in a somewhat negative way by my peers. And that immediately put me into that mindset where I felt very othered. My safety always felt like it wasn't something that I could consider a given.”

618. “You try and do the best you can whenever you are out there. It's just an individual mindset that when I do get the opportunity then do what I do to help the team.”

619. “Kobe was my favorite player from just the way he went about competition. He was so skilled, but his mindset and his approach were really what I took away from him more than anything. How tactical, passionate and detailed he is about the game - he really loved the game.”

620. “Retail employees are the underdogs or 'Rudy' of the work force. They start off at the bottom trying to gain experience, but rarely expect a good wage, a good experience or any career mobility. We need to change that mindset.”

621. “It's about removing the barriers between producers and consumers. I want to get rid of that mindset so that people realize in order to create, you have to participate.”

622. “I want to tell such people to grow up and change their mindset when you deal with women.”

623. “I'm not playing the woman card. But especially being a woman who is not afraid of her mindset and her body. You know people don't like it when you are happy. And that's the easiest target.”

624. “I think 'Long Live the Kane' was pretty much a real boxed-in mindset with me just doing what I represented in the hood.”

625. “I was just always kind of a free spirit with a wild side, but when you a meet a person that just makes you better and makes you better at life, your mindset changes.”

626. “We have to figure out how to do that, in terms of playing with that mindset of just not caring. Playing free in a structured manner.”

627. “I feel like it's just a mindset, a mentality. Whether you're starting or coming off the bench, I feel like my game is very versatile, so I can do both things.”

628. “I've been given plenty of opportunities and been blessed to have the kind of family that I have to give me the mindset to never stop working.”

629. “We have been training penalties and for me, I know my mindset is one of my strongest attributes of my game. I know those are the moments when I can really shine, and bring the attributes that I'm good at, and that is being calm and composed and trusting myself.”

630. “You do your job, you come home, and then like try and drown out the rest. I think it's a really important mindset to have, especially if stuff starts quickly and you're young. Because the rest of it is scary.”

631. “It's a must for us to get higher education since athletes seem to be contended with being good in training and in their events, happy where they are. But I try to change that mindset, let them be aware of other things and grow as a person.”

632. “The mindset in India is to get an education that will secure a job, and then think about how to get a particular salary. We're used to that kind of a life, and that's how we bring up our children.”

633. “My mindset is to prepare myself to catch every day and adjust from there.”

634. “I don't think I was ever in a mindset where I don't want to fight cause I feel like every time that I tried to draw away from fighting, I was always pulled back in.”

635. “We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We need to be spinning six plates, and doing it well. Otherwise plates tumble and break.”

636. “My mindset: Run through people, but have a good time doing it.”

637. “Kobe was, other than my parents, he was the reason why I played sports. Just his mindset, the Mamba mentality.”

638. “I think Gronk is one of, if not the best tight ends to ever play the game. Just his relentless mindset and the fun he has playing.”

639. “Knowing that you're all in for a championship and you have that mindset and feel throughout the group. Every day it's working towards something. That's an exciting feeling to know when you walk in the gym, or in the weight room, it's for a championship.”

640. “It's that mindset we have where we think we are indestructible. I know at least I went through that phase, where everything was excessive! Like if I drove a fast car I'd just have to take it to 130 miles per hour or more, you know!”

641. “My mindset is to stay healthy, continue getting into the ring with the best guys in the world and putting on the best performances.”

642. “I take the mindset that regardless of what happens on the field, I try to learn from my mistakes, and fix those things and be able to be a better football player than I was the week before.”

643. “Knowing how other people wrote music is a great tool, which can be applied into your own musical mindset.”

644. “What makes you tough is your mindset and I believe anyone can be tough.”

645. “I've got this mindset now that I'm going to finish the play no matter where the defender's at.”

646. “The clocks in my house are set to Pacific time, but my watches are set to Chicago time. It just reminds me of home and keeps me in that mindset.”

647. “I found that Toronto has a lot of my similar mindset, which is the underdog mentality and just feeling like you have a chip on your shoulder all the time, feeling eager to prove yourself.”

648. “Coming up against South American, Asian or African sides is always a little bit different in terms of the mentality of your opponents. On the one hand, as I've just said, it's the mindset and the way the players are set up, but you also come across the occasional new concept as regards the way you imagine and eventually play the game.”

649. “My mindset is just to do whatever coach needs me to do.”

650. “I've always had the mindset of getting the best out of what we have and find a way to be successful with it.”

651. “I've always had the mindset that you've got to be creative and not moan or whinge at what you're given.”

652. “You learn as you grow and your mindset also changes with time.”

653. “I represent a district with a really proud tradition of work and innovation in health care, both in delivery and research, so serving in Congress is just a continuation of that mindset.”

654. “A lot of fighters, it's just a mindset they get into, they do something good and they pat themselves on the back for the rest of their career until things go wrong for them. I'm not doing that.”

655. “Away from the pitch, I am still the same guy, but on the pitch, I want to be more aggressive. It's a mindset change.”

656. “I get the mindset of wanting to work your way up the ladder and fight guys that are ranked, but if you come off a couple of losses and you're ranked 10-15, then you've got to start fighting guys outside the rankings and give some of us opportunities to get in there, or else we're all just spinning our wheels here.”

657. “The one time that my mindset went from trying to impress myself and put in performances that I could be proud of, the one time that it didn't and it became about proving everyone else wrong and it became more about what comes with the title was the time I got burned. That was Jon Jones.”

658. “I always felt like I had a smart mindset.”

659. “I genuinely think that you always have to have the mindset, that you have a point to prove. Until the last day of your existence, you have a point to prove.”

660. “To have that mindset and knowing that I'm not going to be perfect, I'm going to throw interceptions, I'm going to throw incompletions unfortunately, but it's all about bouncing back and doing your best.”

661. “It's normalised for people to think that if she is a woman, she will serve and obey. It's often an illusion that we're progressive - you just have to study the mindset and attitude of people in general to realise that.”

662. “My fashion choices have been bold because that is my mindset.”

663. “I used to think differently. Before, it was 'Oh, I have to get the title.' That mindset is kind of gone.”

664. “For me, you can't put pressure on yourself. Because if you put pressure on yourself, it is going to be more difficult to succeed. That is just my mindset.”

665. “When a team gets into the mindset of, Alright, I've got a good shot… he's got a better one, they're going to be tough to beat.”

666. “I think if you go into the season with a defeatist mindset, then you can't expect to be successful.”

667. “My mindset as a running back is to go no matter what. You've got to have a fight in you, something extra in you to keep getting up and going back at it.”

668. “With a happy mindset nothing can stop you.”

669. “I wasn't always the biggest guy out there, muscle-wise, but I knew that every time I stepped out on the court, that I was going to play my hardest, no matter who I was going against. That's just the mindset I have when I go into games.”

670. “If you don't want to be the best then why play the game. That's my mindset.”

671. “I feel I've got all the ability but my mindset I had to change because I beat myself up.”

672. “While switching formats, there is a switch in mindset but skill sets generally don't change.”

673. “I enter every fight with the same exact mindset: All my focus is on my effort and output.”

674. “When I step on the field, I expect to produce. That's just my mindset.”

675. “A lot of people don't understand what being a Muslim is and they don't understand what it means. You just see what you see on the news. But meeting someone like me in person, a Muslim, they're like, 'Oh, I thought all you people were mean' or something like that. It's funny. I try to change their mindset.”

676. “I come from a very different background, in terms of mindset because we were brought up very different from conventional route but still had the same values and ethics which helped us to be more rooted and we had so many family friends also who had so many different mindset and upbringing to us.”

677. “I always had that defensive mindset when I was an attacker.”

678. “It's quite hard to motivate yourself to train hard. Because you'd be telling yourself: 'What am I training for? When I'm not going to be playing.' But I had the mindset: 'I'll train for myself.'”

679. “I have a naive mindset where I always believe I am going to get the job done.”

680. “We have to have a different mindset going on the road, especially when shots aren't going in. You've got to know what you're in for. You've got to be ready for things not to go your way and respond.”

681. “My entire life is violence. If I don't ever leave work at work, then I never leave violence. And I can't be that way, I can't be aggressive, I can't have that mindset when I'm a father.”

682. “After tests, doctors discovered a couple of blockages in my heart. They said it didn't need urgent remedial surgery. It didn't have to be operated for maybe three-four years. But since I was in hospital and in that mindset of healing, we decided to go ahead with the surgery.”

683. “We aspire every day to work as one, maintain a citizen focus, approach problems with a growth mindset, apply leadership everywhere and make a difference.”

684. “I knew the NBA was going to be tougher than college, so that's why I say I knew it would be a challenge. I just tried to come in with the mindset I had to work for everything and I'm not going to get anything easy.”

685. “My mindset going into games is go make a difference and be a finisher.”

686. “I've been an athlete my whole life. I've always kind of wanted to know what I'm going to do after football. I've always kind of had an entrepreneurship mindset.”

687. “In terms of mindset, the fear of failure and letting go of it helped me change a lot. After that I got hungry for runs.”

688. “I want to win each and every match, each and every tournament. When you come in with that attitude, your mindset will be good.”

689. “I changed my mindset in 2016. Dropped my fear of failure.”

690. “My mindset is putting my head down and go to work.”

691. “Every play, the mindset is to gain great yardage and score a touchdown.”

692. “My mindset is to prepare as if I'm playing.”

693. “You always want to get better, if not you're staying the same. That's always been my mindset.”

694. “I've definitely got a mindset of making up for lost time.”

695. “It is a dangerous mindset to have, to target fourth place.”

696. “As long as we were making music that we felt was of the same quality, there was no reason to stop making records, but not everybody in the band shares my mindset for whatever reason.”

697. “I always gotta have that mindset that nobody can guard me.”

698. “It's sometimes draining, but at the same time, you've got to go out there and compete and have fun. Whoever you're with out there, our job as an offense is to go out there and have the same mindset. It's to compete and win.”

699. “Yeah, I think every year you have to have the mindset that you're competing, not only against yourself, you're competing against the teams you're about to play, which is really important for me.”

700. “It's just a different type of mindset rushing in the NFL compared to college.”