Quotes about Perspective
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
— Stephen Covey
As clearly and objectively as we think we see things, we begin to realize that others see them differently from their own apparently equally clear and objective point of view. "Where we stand depends on where we sit.
— Stephen Covey
The more people are into quick fixes and focus on the acute problems and pain, the more that very approach contributes to the underlying chronic condition. The way we see the problem is the problem.
— Stephen Covey
Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
— Stephen Covey
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.
— Stephen Covey
Principle of making what is important to the other person as important to you as the other person is to you.
— Stephen Covey
In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.
— Stephen Covey
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?
— Stephen Covey
It's how you treat the one that reveals how you regard the ninety-nine, because everyone is ultimately a one.
— Stephen Covey
The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.
— Stephen Covey
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
— Stephen Covey
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.
— Stephen Covey