Perspective Quotes

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain w...

...it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of ...

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picay...

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first...

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

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just...

I noticed that he was an Irish setter, rust-colored. He noticed that I was a Welsh sculptor, buff-co...

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

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...

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

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet g...

I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name...

As small as a world as large as alone.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with ...

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indiff...

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

No two persons ever read the same book.

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

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspe...

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and t...

A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequ...

My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, r...

He was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow ...

It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As o...

But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly...

Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his co...

Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if...

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth,all those differences and nationalistic tra...

Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test ...

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bri...

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my fr...

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to s...

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one...

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.I see a glass that's twice as big as i...

We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, sa...

We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save ...

Electricity is really just organized lightning

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rath...

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly a...

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does no...

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It...

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less...

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

Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts...

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

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an oc...

The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we eit...

It's pretty generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do abou...

He was as bold as a lion about it, and 'mightily convinced' not only himself, but everybody that hea...

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind...

There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go ...

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion ...

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, a...

If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destin...

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ...

Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and ev...

Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the no...

The trouble with you people is that you've been here for thirty million years and your perspectives ...

I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than...

Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary a...

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiri...

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Q...

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

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

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

What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person...

Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when y...

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when ...

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspectiv...

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy st...

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and --...

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

Oh, what can you do with a man like that? What can you do? How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd f...

You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need million...

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.