Quotes
Authors
Stephen Covey
"We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms." --
Stephen Covey
#Perspective Quotes
#Perception Quotes
#Mouths Quotes
“I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized and blond-haired and blue-eyed. I saw a little Nazi boy, pockets probably stuffed with scissors and retractable blades. My grandfather on my mother's side was rumored to be half Jewish, which practically makes me Jerry Seinfeld's brother, and thus wary of blond German boys with their hands out of sight.”
“The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.”
“What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?”
“Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.”
“We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.”
“I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. Theyve perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.”
“A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.”
“The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.”