Perspective Quotes

Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

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

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.

I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am I to judge one's perspective?

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

The idea of having new perspectives on our planet, and actually being able to get that message out, gets me out of bed every day with a spring in my step.

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.

My perspective will create my perception

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems too, so I should be advocating for all.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"

If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

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

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.

I'm always looking for a fresh perspective because it's fun to tell stories that are original and new in some way.

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.

My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.