Unhelpful Attitudes Quotes

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

Many things may become baggage, may become encumbrances if we cling to them blindly and uncritically

Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.

The mistake that all 'long-term poor people' make is putting others under a microscope in an attempt to set blame. That right there is a true loser's mentality (or 'poppycock' if you will).

Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

If somebody is going in the wrong direction, behavioral coaching just helps them get there faster. It doesn't turn the wrong direction into the right direction.