Thomas Barrett Quotes

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

I don't torture myself.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

I can control my attitude, and I can control my game.

The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not in my control.

I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.

You stay positive. Any competitor is going to get angry with themselves and frustrated, and all the emotion comes on.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.