Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

If you relax too much, the subconscious plays the role; the conscious does something else, rather than the other way around, which is the way it's supposed to be.

When we shift our perception, our experience changes.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

When you cut your hair, everybody thinks you lost weight.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

People usually tend to believe grim words rather than positive ones.

I do not think that everybody has to struggle. But to probably at least half of the people, it never seems to enter their minds that they might be engaged in a struggle or that there might be something to struggle with.

When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind.

I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness, your life will start expressing something which is beyond both positive and negative, which is higher than both. So you are not going to be a loser. It is not going to be negative, it is not going to be positive, it is going to be existential.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult

Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.

As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes.

I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.