Dorothea Brande Quotes

Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

Are you the person who just wakes up, puts your T-shirt on and runs out of the house? Or do you wake up an hour early - get your mental notes together, fix you a little coffee... prepare yourself for the day and try to do something really great? It begins with you.

I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

I think being optimistic is ensuring your success. If you start out saying 'I've got this problem,' or 'I'm angry at that,' you will not succeed.

I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.

I take my three dogs for long walks every day, and I use that time to talk myself through winning every major competition.

I think about the game plan, and then I go through all the little things that are almost impossible to do. If you go through those things in your mind, you can do them.

I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve them by. I was amazed when I started reaching these goals by the date I had listed on them. It was a daily visualization exercise, and it almost always works.

Year-end goals are terrific! Affirmations with goals are even better! And goals, affirmations, along with visualization is even more effective!

Everything in your preparation, in your mind is we're gonna win this game. You don't really even think of the other side.

If yesterday was a good day's work, chances are you'll stay on a roll. And if you can stay on a roll, everything else will probably take care of itself - including not working from the moment you get up in the morning until you nod off to sleep.

I think mental preparation is really important. Every day, you've got to imagine your goal.

Think about your goals at every opportunity throughout the day.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.