The way we see the problem is the problem.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: problem perception

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Talmuidic saying The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: perception experience bias

The beautiful! It is beauty seen with the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: inner beauty spirituality perception

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: beauty character perception

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: perception renewal senses

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: perception vision wisdom

...there is beauty, meaning, truth, love, and mystery in the world at all times and under all circumstances, although these things are sometimes hard to perceive, or even to imagine...Beauty, meaning, truth, love, and mystery do no just add their separate share of goodness to life. The whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. Beauty, plus meaning, plus truth, plus love, plus mystery equals something awesom, nameless, and inconceivable.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: perception vision life spirituality

People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: reality perception vision attitude

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Maurice Maeterlinck The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness vision perception fulfillment

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring it with you.
Joseph Joubert The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: beauty perception spirituality soul

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Rabindranath Tagore Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: reality truth perception experience understanding

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: attitude behavior assumptions perception cynicism

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: art perception understanding learning growth knowledege vision

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus perception materialism choice possessions happiness

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Words for All Occasions
Categories: character vision goal potential growth judgement perception

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a temple of majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the paradise of God.
Thomas Traherne How to Want What You Have
Categories: world nature beauty paradise perception appreciation peace

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: truth honesty integrity perception expectation myth vision

Little pot, do not call the kettle black until you have been in the fire as long as he has!
Sequichie grandmother A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: perception respect judgementalism difficulties challenges problems charity mercy

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: perception self-image self-knowledge security understanding love friendship relationships intentions behavior

As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character patience punctuality time sincerity integrity honesty solicitude caring giving attitude perception

How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the quality of this journey we are on, and what it means to us. It can influence where we go, what happens, what we learn, and how we feel along the way.
Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
Categories: attitude gratitude thought joy happiness emotions life choices decisions learning growth self-improvement experiences perception