Perspective Quotes

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

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

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

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?

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

Changing yourself changes everything.

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

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

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

The perspective is more important than the perception

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

The female perspective is what I relate to and I understand it. I find it fascinating. I like to see women in challenging situations and see how they deal with it or don't deal with it.

TV is part of your life - it makes you feel connected to the rest of the world - as opposed to someone else's perspective crushed into a few hours.

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

Begin to see yourself in all other beings.

I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way.

I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.