Perspective Quotes

O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!

The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers usthat we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213)

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.

Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.

It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime.

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

Isn't it lucky?

No perspective, no perception.New perspective, new perception.

When you're at peace, you embrace the eternity.When you're confused, you be dazzled by doomsday.

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.

The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him.

If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention

Becoming a lake has put a lot of things in perspective for me.

Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.

But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.

I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.

The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.

We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence.

The Western church needs to regain its confidence in the role of outsiders, relocators who come in humility and grace to learn first and then to offer a different perspective.

You're Superman, thinking Kryptonite makes you invincible."

Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.

They ask me, what will change if we change the perspective?I replied, “Everything.

Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green, or whistling, or dead.

Ask yourself this question: will this matter a year from now?

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad.

Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?

There is a sky full of stars aplenty, and all you can babble about is a cold, little rock we call the moon. This is how it is with petty problems that exist too close to us.

Look at the lonely fisherman, ' my father says.'Look at his view, ' my mother says.

That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.

Life is beautiful, but it is also so damn ugly.

Behavior makes sense from the actor's perception or else the actor wouldn't do it. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, you know, today I'm going to be conforming, mistaken, nasty, and so on.

Loved for is based on one's perception, you can easily spend a lifetime trying to define its definition.

He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated the honored and the condemned.

My father used to say, “a day spent breathing is a good day

Sometimes a problem isn’t really a problem but the solution in disguise.

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

Make information your servant, perspective your reward, and openness your principle.

It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation.

Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude.

It's all about perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to the lobsters in the ship's kitchen. (Oct 4, 2011)

Think More Not Less.

I thought about the guy in the truck, the focus in his expression, and I felt like I already knew enough of the story to tell it to somebody else maybe better than either of its major players could.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.