Barry Ritholtz Quotes

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

We are our own worst enemies and as a coach you can help people recognise that, raise their self-awareness and then see if they change or do anything about it.

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.

Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.

I think the more cricket you play, the more you will learn about yourself and learn about life in general.

Once you make a mistake, it's kind of in your head what you need to do and what exactly is going on.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.

When you hang out with yourself, you learn to keep yourself in check.

I need a little more 'Jersey Shore' in me, I guess. It's just not who I am. It would almost be phony at this point.

Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

I don't need to tell stories about how I prepare or manage myself.

People often confuse a growth mindset with being flexible or open-minded or with having a positive outlook - qualities they believe they've simply always had. My colleagues and I call this a false growth mindset.

The greater jihad is proclaiming war on our ego's destructive and negative emotions and thoughts... which prevent us from attaining perfection.

I had a little gut check, and ultimately, I grew up as far as my MMA mentality and am more mature now.

We're not really allowed to admit that, maybe as humans, sometimes we need to revise our own histories and frame things in a more positive light than is true.

I want to keep my head in the game, my ego low.

I watch all our games again at home and I know when I have made a mistake and when I haven't.

Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.