Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.
How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.
A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.
My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.
Perception of a state is not the state.
Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act the vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see or don't see.
Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.
The universe is in the experience. It's not just out there. What's out there, we don't know. But for humans it's an experience just like the universe for a dolphin or an insect with 100 eyes is a different experience. Our universe is a human universe experienced in human consciousness and, unless we understand how consciousness operates, we will never actually be able to participate in the creation of our personal and collective reality.
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.
I think your imagination is your reality
I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.
All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.
Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it.
If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.
It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.
What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.
The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.
What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
