Perspective Quotes

And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

In the context of eternity, time doesn't matter.

In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.

Living from the perspective at which you came from and returning to source really is an act of remembering, rather than an act of learning.

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

Travellers are just commuters with a wider perspective.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.

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

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

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.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Electricity is really just organized lightning

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

The Mother Thing makes our world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

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

Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.

When actors encounter a mishap during a stage performance, they transform it for good purpose by employing a technique called, “use the difficulty.” How can you “use the difficulty” in your life?

Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.

Later that day when I walked down this dried-out riverbed, enjoying the last rays of sunshine on my bare skin, I felt a deep inner peace coming up straight from my heart.

Die wertvollste Reise ist die Reise zu unserem Selbst.