Sheena Iyengar Quotes

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

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.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's the foundation of certainly most pop-psychology, and of a lot of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy. So that, I think, is the greatest truth.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

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

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

The world begins with what we believe.

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.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

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

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

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.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

There are many levels of truth.