Perspective Quotes

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' becau...

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I ...

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but i...

Silverfish looked down."Oh. Are you a dwarf?"Cuddy gave him a blank stare."Are you a giant?" He said...

That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreci...

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too b...

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to av...

The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just li...

There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who conc...

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...

A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras.

When we know that it's a planet just like this one, only with a better climate and worse people--whe...

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties,...

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this somet...

She could have wept. It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! She could have done it different...

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a uniqu...

Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to ...

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's...

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling bac...

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it...

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as th...

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it become...

The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in commo...

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so mu...

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unle...

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of ve...

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

From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteou...

Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.

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

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

He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an obser...

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it s...

He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time ho...

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORT...

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their ...

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man c...

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with posses...

Each being is, exactly as you are, the sole centre of a Universe in no wise identical with, or even ...

He would sit down and consider the situation carefully. Not only did this help to identify the solut...

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which preven...

the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity;...

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that whic...

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational haza...

For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut...

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections ma...

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actu...

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

​Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

On the Rules of PerspectiveA bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Bra...

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but thes...

There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yo...

Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have chan...

An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladd...

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

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

The best things in life aren't things.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ...

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forc...

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism...

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned ...

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long...

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

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen...

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't...

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her.Without a moment’s h...

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really ...

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

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean ...

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equa...

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those th...

But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than m...

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sor...

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

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you k...

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by th...

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no tu...

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life sh...

You understand, we just don't fuck with truth.

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

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothin...

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