Perspective Quotes

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.

Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of tangible outcomes.

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

Perspective is a kind of mental sunblock that, provided we apply it properly, prevents us from getting burned by past mistakes.

Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

[Donald Trump] said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program, "My primary consultant is myself." While this may make consensus easy, the range of perspective is dangerously narrow.

The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.

I look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

The challenge I think at first consideration is always a mixture of the creative opportunity and the finances. From the studio perspective, that's what they're looking to balance.

I think we are all overcoming tiny obstacles every second of every day even if that means just a small shift in perspective.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister]... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives.

Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.

It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

SUSTAINABLE PEACE IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH WOMEN'S FULL PARTICIPATION, their perspectives, their leadership, their daily, equal presence wherever we seek to make and keep the peace.

Any religion is a perspective upon existence.

In the midst of events there is no perspective.

And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

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I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.