Perspective Quotes

Perspective Quote of the day

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

Electricity is really just organized lightning

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?

But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.

I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons.

Success is not achieved in a vacuum: the people you spend most of your time with and the voices you allow to influence your thoughts play a significant part in your success or lack of it.

Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.

A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

Incredible ideas, results, and outcomes are possible when two or more minds come together for a common purpose.