Perspective Quotes

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.

If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...

...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history...

To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.

How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it

Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].

The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects the existence of our own world.

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

When you live with a 20/20 mindset your path is straight, vision is clear, and decisions are precise. You see the bigger picture with a broader view and incorporate different angles and perspectives.

It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human genome.

Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective.

People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!

...your personality is the only permanent thing in your, ultimately, temporary life...that's all the more reason to cherish it...

Differences disappear when faced with death.

The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now.

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

Flanked by his personal guardsmen, Emperor Gevalen walked toward me, never letting go of me with his eyes. It was thrilling and terrifying all at once.

Live happy and enjoy your journey. Life is too short to not enjoy the ride ! Perspective really matters. Worry never solves any problems. Have belly laughs and chuckles instead

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.

People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.

I almost trust her to burn the bridges while standing at the cliff herself. She hardly agrees to be on the same page as others, either ahead of all or all in a different book.

Sometimes we look at life from the perspective of our own problems and, in so doing, ignore how fortunate we are.

To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.

If You See Things As It Is, You Will Never Know What It Is

We all come from different paths in life but we can find common ground.

Have you considered that some of your greatest heartaches and hardships might actually be the best things that ever happened to you in the long run?

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.