Chris Matakas Quotes - Page 2

Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes.

Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily.

The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day.

The great men of all areas of humanity’s activities never tried to be a better version of someone else. They simply brought to the table a full life's cultivation of their particular skill sets, experiences, and passions, and we must do the same.

Choosing to forgo the small rewards of society now will lead to the monumental rewards of becoming a person of value later.

Nowhere in the history of man has there existed someone with your particular set of experiences and skills, which means there exists a mode of play that you are unequivocally predestined to succeed in more than any other.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.

Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.

The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.

This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.