Quotes about Perspective

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

The principles you live by create the world you live in. So when you change the principles you live by, you can change your world. Your mission statement serves to summarize the principles you want to live by.

Principle of making what is important to the other person as important to you as the other person is to you.

In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.

It shows, first of all, how powerfully conditioning affects our perceptions, and our paradigms. If ten seconds can have that kind of impact on the way we see things, what about the conditioning of a lifetime?

It's how you treat the one that reveals how you regard the ninety-nine, because everyone is ultimately a one.

The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.

Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is "outside-in"—what's out there has to change before we can change. The

Three central values in life—the experiential, or that which happens to us; the creative, or that which we bring into existence; and the attitudinal, or our response in difficult circumstances.

We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.

Where we stand depends on where we sit.

Whether a problem is direct, indirect, or no control, we have in our hands the first step to the solution. Changing our habits, changing our methods of influence and changing the way we see our no control problems are all within our Circle of Influence.