Perspective Quotes

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

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

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

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

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

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

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust?

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

When Christ is the center of your focus, all else will come into proper perspective.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.