Perspective Quotes - Page 6

At 17, the gratitude part of their brain is a little undercooked.

Last Man Standing

But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.

There's always time for tea.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Worship is the launching pad for life.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Your view on the world is validated and verified daily. How is your view on the world working for you?

Tony Curl

Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The look that one directs at things, both outward and inward, as an artist, is not the same as that with which one would regard the same as a man, but at once colder and more passionate. As a man, you might be well-disposed, patient, loving, positive, and have a wholly uncritical inclination to look upon everything as all right, but as an artist your daemon constrains you to "observe", to take note, lightning fast and with hurtful malice, of every detail that in the literary sense would be characteristic, distinctive, significant, opening insights, typifying the race, the social or the psychological mode, recording all as mercilessly as though you had no human relationship to the observed object whatever.

Joseph Campbell

As I squeeze, he turns his head, and there is the tiniest, slimmest of moments when he sees me. I look into those wolf eyes, and even though they are empty, they're still alive. In that split second he is alive and looking at me. I am alive and looking at him. Then the moment is over, the trigger is pulled back, and the gun is empty.

Carolyn Lee Adams

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

Thomas L. Friedman

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

Jennifer Senior

He was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow preserved his good humor – much more than that, a mysterious and tranquil joy – throughout a life which to all outward observation had been overloaded with misfortune. He had like many another been born in full sunlight and lived to see night fall.

Apologies, one loses perspective after spending a week in a brothel.

Christopher Moore

Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.

Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

Shannon L. Alder

The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.

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

Neal Stephenson

We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.

Sheryl Sandberg

There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

Sheryl Sandberg

But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I feel like a fraud. And I still sometimes find myself spoken over and discounted while men sitting next to me are not. But now I know how to take a deep breath and keep my hand up. I have learned to sit at the table.

Sheryl Sandberg

Think personally, act communally.

Sheryl Sandberg

He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right.

Sheryl Sandberg

As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do.

Sheryl Sandberg

We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now.

Girl Meets World

When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

Perhaps nothing is as simple as it looks. Perhaps everything has another layer, a hidden room that only reveals itself when you accidentally stumble across the secret door. Or perhaps I'm talking bollocks and it's time to go to bed.

Our eyes captures thousands of beautiful pictures everyday.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes inspiration just requires looking at things from a different point of view.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time.

She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.

David Halberstam

Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If my mind was in your body going through the same circumstances. I would act differently, and likewise. Judging in nature is separation.

Matthew Donnelly

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.

Anonymous

Being brave is about the everyday points of bravery that when taken together and viewed from a collective perspective make for an extraordinary life of love.

andrea T Goeglein

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in my point of view, able to stand off and observe myself and my surroundings in a rather impersonal fashion. The actual sight of my first casualty was not nearly as bad as I had imagined.

James Carl Nelson

Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

Madam Secretary

I do have to prioritize my end-of-the-world documents.

Madam Secretary

The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.

Rebecca Harding Davis

It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

Patrick Hennessey

Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.

Rachel DiCarlo Currie

Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes.

Matthew Donnelly

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

Patrick Hennessey

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

Gregory Maguire

I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars's atmosphere. They are like specks of silver in an ocean of ink. And I am so much less. But those specs could ravage Mars. They could destroy a moon. Those specks rule the ink.

There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.

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

Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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

Stephen L. Carter

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

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