Quotes About Perspective

Try asking instead of telling, understanding instead of responding, listening instead of talking.

What is a positive attitude? The simple definition is the way you dedicate yourself to the way you think. Interestingly, it's also the definition of a negative attitude.

Stop thinking of your product as a commodity.

Most salespeople think that unless they are calling a customer to sell something, it's a wasted call. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

Neither George Washington, nor Thomas Jefferson, nor Benjamin Franklin believed that Jesus was anything more than a divinely inspired and chosen human being—which is exactly what James and the earliest Christians believed.

las medidas de contención en la raíz, llevan consigo el concepto de "esto y, aun así, esto otro"».

TPS starts with the customer. Always ask, "What value are we adding from the customer's perspective?" Because the only thing that adds value in any type of process—be it a manufacturing, service, or development process—is the physical or information transformation of that product, service, or activity into something the customer wants.

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1 000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19 000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

But there are times in the world where a stack of truth can be undone by one shining nugget of harder truth. I am not saying it makes sense to us outside those holding that nugget, only that when it's in your hand, you hold it and know it for what it is.

Since the war, little in the world makes sense and once you see part of it that way, all else follows.

The experience of learning how to Relabel, Reframe, Refocus, and Revalue was eye-opening for them because it allowed them to see that their time could be better spent on other pursuits and in healthier ways.

The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.

What could I say? That I didn't care about living? That with every day of life more and more is being subtracted from less and less? Minus this second. Minus this second. That I was tired of collecting the millions of minutes, killing the idle thousands of hours?

Jeffrey N. Gingold

Sometimes distortions can speak the truth. They confirm for me what is real by troubling me with something false.

Leaders who have come up through the ranks and have done many if not most of the organization's jobs are much more likely to look out for the interests of those they lead because they have been there themselves.

If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.

When you know how to find a story – when you know what a story looks like and where they hide – you see them everywhere.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

Actually, 'worthless piece of shit' if you think about it, suggests the possibility of the opposite.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.

Value is subjective, as the Austrian economists say. We make value by our thinking, and our thinking is notoriously unpredictable.