"Bedwellisms"

Success quotes from Steve's speeches, articles and book

"Dealing with change is like being punched in the face, just because it's obvious does not mean you'll see it coming!"

"Opportunities slip away with the things you fail to notice."

"In customer service, perspective blindness masquerades as stupidity."

"Perspective is everything: When you're looking to buy a house, the yard looks much smaller than when you've bought the house and you're standing behind a lawn mower!"

"People don't embrace diversity because their own viewpoint seems so obvious to them."

"What you already know is a greater obstacle than what you don't know."

"All things considered, you don't consider all things!"

"The more intelligent, experienced and educated you are, the more you think you're right when you're actually wrong!"

"If you remain unaware of your very limited perspective, then you'll see no reason to believe that other options exist. And even less motivation to search for them."

"If you are failing to achieve your goals, it's because you're choosing perspectives that render your opportunities invisible."

"Your fear of making a mistake generally has far more negative impact on your success than the mistake itself."

"You don't have an open mind. It's enclosed within a 'mental picture frame' - a Brain Frame."

"How do you make your decisions? In order to avoid fear, by crisis or by design?"

"Perspective diversity is the oxygen that sustains social diversity."

"Our frames of reference have more affect on us than reality and contain the truths we live by until we know better."

"Applying logic isn't logical until you have viewed your problem from different perspectives."

"With every assumption you make, you become less likely to respond to a situation imaginatively."

"If you want to be successful, talent and hard work aren't enough. Talent is commonplace and hard work just puts you into the game. The secret to getting what you want is to get a fresh perspective."

"There's nothing, apart from love or terror, which narrows your viewpoint quite like success."

If you listen to the majority, you'll never be successful because most people aren't!

"Here's the ultimate secret to your creativity: You are as creative as you believe yourself to be."

"Stop trying to squeeze every last drop out of your current viewpoint. Instead, look outside the 'picture frame' of your perspective, see the unexpected and change your life."

"It's only after you've viewed your circumstances from different points of view, that you're really in a position to apply logic, solve problems and make good decisions."

"At first, even a wonderful idea rarely appears as good as the old approach. It must be nurtured and explored. This will only happen if you value your own creative potential."

"Your – very real – emotions are not a product of reality."

"Relax! The things that really screw up your life, you probably won't see coming."

"Educators mold the soft clay of our minds until it dried out and hardens. At which point, they hold a graduation ceremony."

"Infomercial: TV-speak for let's rip off a couch potato!"

"Don't confuse disagreeable people with people who disagree with you. Disagreeable people suck you dry and leave you a floppy pajama case of your former self. Whereas people who disagree with you are your ultimate source of fresh perspectives."

"Experience: A narrow viewpoint masquerading as expertise."

"Whenever you feel an overwhelming urge to react in haste, make that reaction a pause."

"What would happen if you simply ignored your perceived limitations?"

"Lack of insight is an error of limited perspective, not insufficient logic or low intelligence."

"You pay too much attention to what you're already seeing and not enough attention to what you're missing."

"When you look at your problems, you only see what you expect to see. Unexpected solutions remain invisible "

"Your nose is well within your visual field. It doesn't obscure your view because your brain filters it out. What else is your brain filtering out? What are you making up to fill in the gaps?"

"If an education were the sole key to success, medical doctors would be the healthiest people on the planet."

"When you limit your outlook to the expected and the familiar, nothing changes. If you keep seeing things the same way, you'll keep doing things the same way, which means you'll get the same results."

"We don't achieve what we hope to achieve, but what we expect to achieve. Do you prepare your goals with a limited expectation of who you are and what you're capable of becoming?"

"A fixed perspective can render the simple, difficult and the difficult, impossible."

"Your thoughts leave footprints as they change the anatomy of your brain. Today, will your footprints be walking towards greater success?"

"Proof reading is tough. When you look at a spelling mistake, you 'see' the word you expect to see instead of the word you've actually written. Still confident you'll notice the mistakes that you don't commit to paper?"

"Most people fail to achieve their true potential because they ignore, complain about and try to avoid the tough stuff rather than learn how to flex their Perspective Power and deal with it."

"Carry a notepad. The best thoughts rarely occur while brainstorming. I've made a career out of telling people the ideas I wrote down while thinking about something else!"

"You don’t see everything that you see, hear everything that you hear or feel everything that you feel."

"Don't expect yesterday's solutions to solve tomorrow's problems."

"In the long run, deeper thinking in your own area of expertise is less valuable than curiosity elsewhere."

Now go and clean your windows of opportunity...