Psychological Barrier Quotes

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Fear is the mind-killer.

To move past fear is a cliche.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.

A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.

The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is deathlike. It is the security of the plant inside the seed. The plant is afraid to sprout because - who knows? The world is so hazardous and the plant will be so soft, so fragile. Behind the wall of the seed, hiding inside the cell, everything is protected.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experiential barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [...] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.

In around 2000, I became aware of a recurring problem of the 'tightness' around my cueing action, which somehow stops me believing that I can play the shot - even shots I could previously play with my eyes shut.

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

Argentina has never been able to convince itself that it can win in Brazil. For some reason we have always struggled.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.

Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.