Perspective Quotes

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning to...

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by th...

If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the...

The body is our general medium for having a world.

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The chi...

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man ...

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not ...

People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing...

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?...

After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an op...

Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in...

..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control thing...

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

Why do we keep focusing on the minutiae, not the possible significant large events, in spite of the ...

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some ot...

We are all in trouble.... with a bunch of dead people.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter...

What you remembered? Probably. More or less. Different people remember things differently, and you'l...

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to...

Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the...

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in ...

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were pay...

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws ...

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a hu...

It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or n...

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people kill...

When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and...

(on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006...

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the st...

«Linkeree does what he likes. He likes to be alone and think his own thoughts. No one is hurt by it....

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault...

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If ...

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wron...

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and...

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her moo...

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the...

Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.

The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, h...

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man w...

Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrig...

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

For human nature is such that grief and pain - even simultaneously suffered - do not add up as a who...

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so ha...

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, c...

No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.

Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust and to resolve the conditions for a peace persp...

Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into...

Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?

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

Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?

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

The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspec...

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and...

Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain...

Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is. And when you presume...

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friend...

To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationa...

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamil...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu...

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

Once past the comfort zone in either direction, humans soon lost the ability to discriminate bad fro...

You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one...

...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must c...

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

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their heart...

It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's per...

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me ...

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new stree...

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Despite all of the time he spent in Big Heart's, Wilson had never come to understand the social live...

The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is th...

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisi...

When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

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...