Perspective Is Everything Quotes

“An organization, its business, sector, or purpose do not exist per se. Reality becomes its perception.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“You've heard it said that what you see is what you get. But what I've discovered is that it's not what you see, but what you think you see, that determines what you get.”
― Steve Goodier

“Perception trumps reality. People react to what they think is occurring, which isn’t necessarily the same thing as what’s truly happening.”
― Christopher Manske, The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence

“Some people are happy that they have each lost one instead of both legs, whereas some are unhappy because they have each lost a toenail.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Change your perspective and the world will change for you.”
― Shesh Nath Vernwal

“The very same fact about a thing can be both the good and the bad thing about it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Stoicism is a mild form of pessimism … sprinkled with optimism.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Worry is just a feeling, it will soon go away.
It's doing, not worrying, that truly saves the day.
So instead of being scared about what could be,
let's do something now — that's a better plan, you see!”
― Lyra Brave, Luna Heartstrong & the Spectacular Supernova

“Questions are not an act of rebellion, but not questioning is an act of submissive conditioning.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“Having problems is not nearly as tormenting as being had by problems.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“How strange perspective is. When you are far away from an object, you can't see its true size. When you come face to face with obstacles in life, you can recognize how large they have loomed. Everything in my viewpoint has been tainted by my pain . . .”
― Jenny Knipfer, Blue Moon

“We call it a “full moon,” or a “crescent moon,” etc., but the moon never changes its shape. We just see it from a different angle, and that changes everything.
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Of course we know the moon doesn’t change shape! The point is just to notice how our vocabulary around something makes us “see” it a certain way.”
― Kelly Corbet, BIG: the practice of joy

“I cannot be defeated unless I decide that today is the day I stop trying.”
― Germany Kent

“Sometimes the most unlikely voice is the one that you need to hear that will allow you to see things in a different light.”
― Germany Kent

“That we can change the shadow of an object without changing the object (by changing the position of the source of light) reminds us that we can change how we feel about a situation or person by changing only how we look at it or them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being a ghost isn't that different to being a war photographer. Long periods of boredom interspersed with short bursts of terror. As action-packed as your post-death party has been, most of it is spent watching people staring at things. People stare a lot, break wind a lot, and touch their genitals much too much.

Most people think they are alone and, as usual, they are mistaken. At the very least, there are a hundred insects within spitting distance of you and a few trillion bacteria on everything you touch. And yes, some of them are watching you.

There will always be something hovering or passing through, though most things that hover and pass are as interested in you as you are in earthworms. There are at least five spirits wandering the space your in now. One may be reading over your shoulder.”
― Almeida maali

“In uncertain times, it's okay to feel
scared and upset. Let those emotions be real.
The Universe reminds us we can't control it all,
but trust in the journey, for it won't let you fall.”
― Lyra Brave, Luna Heartstrong & the Whimsical Wormhole

“Let us learn to love the stars we are under.”
― Lyra Brave, Luna Heartstrong & the Whimsical Wormhole