Vic Braden famous quotes

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.
-- Vic Braden

#Attitude #Thinking #Optimism

Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.
-- Vic Braden

#Pride #Winning #Champion

Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.
-- Vic Braden

#Two #Play #Tennis

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
-- Vic Braden

#Dream #Opportunity #Enlightenment

My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.
-- Vic Braden

#Ice Cream #Play #Tennis

If you're thinking something good about your players, say it; don't save it for later.
-- Vic Braden

#Sports #Thinking #Player

It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.