Quotes About Perspective

1.  Create a One-liner.

But I didn't like thinking about myself anymore. You get tired of thinking about yourself all the time when you're a writer.

Companies tend to sell solutions to external problems, but customers buy solutions to internal problems.

Where there is an absence of story, or perhaps a bad story, a good storyteller walks in and changes reality. He doesn't critique the existing story, or lament about his boredom, like a critic. He just tells something different and invites other people into the new story he is telling.

You become like the people you interact with. And if your friends are living boring stories, you probably will too.

The stories we tell ourselves are very different from the stories we tell the world.

I felt like I was in a movie and had two cameras for eyes

If you quote a poem in a sermon today, some people think you are being mushy, but if you quoted one back in the day, people would have felt you were getting to the core of an idea, to the real, whole truth of it.

But what if the problem wasn't the product? What if the problem was the way we talked about the product?

Never forget, you aren't telling a story about yourself here, you are inviting customers into a story. In that story, you play the guide, not the hero, so position yourself as the customers' guide and then get back to inviting them into a meaningful story.

It made me think about the hard lives so many people have had, the sacrifices they've endured, and how those people will see heaven differently from those of us who have had easier lives.

Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist. The world revolves around us, regardless of how altruistic, generous, and selfless a person we may be. Each day is, quite literally, about how we encounter our world. Potential customers feel the same way about themselves. They are the center of their world.

What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given—it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

our customers don't care. Why? Because that information isn't helping them eat, drink, find a mate, fall in love, build a tribe, experience a deeper sense of meaning, or stockpile weapons in case barbarians start coming over the hill behind our cul-de-sac.

What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it.

Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist.

His conclusion was that the human body displayed physical evidence that we are not the same person we were when we were kids, or even a season before. He said we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

And I found myself wanting even better stories. And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story.

customers make buying decisions not based on what we say but on what they hear.

Have a project to work on, some reason to get out of bed in the morning and preferably something that serves other people. 2. Have a redemptive perspective on life's challenges. That is, when something difficult happens, recognize the ways that difficulty also serves you. 3. Share your life with a person or people who love you unconditionally.

finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon.

by helping them imagine what life can look like when they buy your products or services.

The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

Brands that position themselves as heroes unknowingly compete with their potential customers. Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist. The world revolves around us, regardless