Perspective Quotes

If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight

Owning a drone does not a pilot make.

I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.

Perspective is the key to everything.

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?

Not until you change your lens, true beauty shall always look ugly to you!

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.

It's only when you put action into practice will you ever really unlock the real possibilities that surround you.

Synchronicity occurs at the intersection of your awareness, response, perspective, and action.

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

You are lucky to feel sadness.

The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.

Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective.

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.

A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras.

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

We had to think differently to do what must be done.

The answer is not relevant to the knowledge of an inquiring mind.

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

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

Unable to understand why you think so, when you chose a different path.

In the end, we all have our different levels of moral values.

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

She looked at his face and saw a monk and a detective, both beautiful and bizarre.

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.

Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.

God’s peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.

When you study God’s Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

Could circumstances possibly change who I forever am in You?

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

The journey is where we find perspective.

A man makes choices, ” Tal said.“True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.