“A mindset is an innate disposition governing how you expect people to behave (and not behave), what you are motivated to do (and not do), and why you do what you do (and the consequence if you do not).”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“Though you may value many principles, there is one you instinctively uphold above all others.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“The formula to end burnout is straightforward: maximize your passion and minimize your void.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“When someone compromises your mindset principle, your “Grr!” reflex automatically kicks in. Just like your physiological reflexes, this psychological reflex serves and protects by safeguarding a virtue of humanity.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“Purpose is heartfelt, benevolent, and personally meaningful to you. It’s a state of being that you desire for yourself, yet you recognize its importance in the world, and you want it for others too.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“Purpose isn’t what you do. Purpose is your reason for doing something. It’s the why behind what you do.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.”
Source: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
“While your passion gives you energy, your void sucks the life force out of you like a vampire, leaving you feeling depleted and disengaged.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“Does it seem reasonable that she should play so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect that one day she will be wonderful in both. The watertight compartments in her will break down, and music and life will mingle.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart: men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help. To one of her upbringing, and of her destination, the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence, when George threw her photographs into the river Arno.”
Source: A Room with a View