Sean Covey Quotes

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

I think perception is important.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

As we are, so we see.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

We need to get our heads on straight about what is strength and what is weakness.

I suppose we are what we are, and we use the evidence to confirm what we believe.

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

We are what our thoughts have made us

The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.