Perspective Quotes

Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.

We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.

A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.

Well from a personal perspective, quitting drinking is a decision I felt good about.

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

It’s this perspective of us as humans to look at our world through the lens of ‘normal’ [that] is one of the forces that stops us developing real solutions.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines--commercial and underground--and your voice will evolve from what you see there.

I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an individuality perspective.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

Once you start making money you have to put things into perspective.

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

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?

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

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

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.

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.

Changing yourself changes everything.

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?