Edward de Bono Quotes

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

I absolutely do care what people think about me.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

I introspect on how I am perceived by other people. It's been this way since my childhood.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.