Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

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.

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

I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.

A high openness score means you're open-minded - you see the world for what it is - whereas a low openness score means you're incredibly closed-minded, and you see the world the way you want to see it, regardless of what is actually going on.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

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

[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

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.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.

When you are thinking something, you have the feeling that the thoughts do nothing except inform you the way things are and then you choose to do something and you do it. That's what people generally assume. But actually, the way you think determines the way you're going to do things. Then you don't notice a result comes back, or you don't see it as a result of what you've done, or even less do you see it as a result of how you were thinking. Is that clear?

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

As we are, so we see.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.