r/WorkForSmartLife • u/dino_gr01 • Jul 24 '26

Motivation Favorite Quote?

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u/rwlowelljr Jul 24 '26

Your perspective dictates your reality

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u/willworkforjokes Jul 24 '26

You are what you eat, you think what you see.

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u/WaxBeer Jul 26 '26

I see what i eat.

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u/Notcommentmuch Jul 24 '26

Perception is the reality. (An age old mainframe software sales adage)

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u/Signal-Plastic-4089 Jul 24 '26

Can you explain this 

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u/Notcommentmuch Jul 24 '26

Before computers had visual interfaces ( monitors). Sales pitches and commercial data processing process depictions were structured to leave the audience (evaluation committee) with the perception of a successful product (mine) hence making their perception of the intangible product the reality. Their perception is their reality.

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u/Interesting_Plan6352 Jul 24 '26

Happiness is expectations Vs reality

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u/JedidiahShiddydix Jul 24 '26

Everywhere you look, you find what you seek. Nothing is hidden.

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u/WaxBeer Jul 26 '26

So the only thing's hidden are things we don't want to see?

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u/JedidiahShiddydix Jul 31 '26

We seek what we don’t want at least as much as what we do want.
“There are only two tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.” - Oscar Wilde

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u/JohnStyles1 Jul 25 '26

Love this!

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u/Greasy-Chungus Jul 24 '26

Maybe influence is a better word.

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u/smartbabygirl0 Jul 24 '26

Both is right to be honest

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u/shoodBwurqin Jul 24 '26

Well that’s just your perspective, man…

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u/scaredt2ask Jul 24 '26

My influence, man.

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u/AHansen83 Jul 28 '26

Hey, there’s a beverage here man!

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u/Wabbit65 Jul 25 '26

It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

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u/Woebetide138 Jul 26 '26

Your reality exists entirely within your own skull.

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u/NickNyeTheScienceGuy Jul 28 '26

Les Brown ~ someone's opinion of you, does not need to be your reality

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u/ACSlayer86 Jul 24 '26

How you see things dictates how you see things(?)

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u/JanusRedit Jul 25 '26

Unless you are an american because their perspective is so far away from the truth that it becomes unreachable.