List Of 51 Perspective Quotes About Life:
#1 Denis Waitley
”You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.”
#2 Corrie Ten Boom
“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.”
#3 S.J. Watson
“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.”
#4 James A. Owen
“All stories are true. But some of them never happened.”
#5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
#6 Harvey Mackay
”When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.”
#7 Allen Ginsberg
“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.”
#8 Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
#9 Art Buchwald
“The best things in life aren’t things.”
#10 Steve Jobs
”A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
#11 C.S. Lewis
“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”
#12 Ian Fleming
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”
#13 Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?”
#14 Claudia Gray
“Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.”
#15 Mark Twain
“Distance lends enchantment to the view.”
#16 P.G. Wodehouse
“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”
#17 Hayao Miyazaki
“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”
#18 Irvin D. Yalom
“If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.”
#19 Nayyirah Waheed
“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
#20 Don Miguel Ruiz
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
#21 Arthur C. Clarke
”It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.”
#22 Robert Morgan
”Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.”
#23 Ginger Zee
”No matter the natural disaster I’ve covered, whether it’s a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.”
#24 Chuck Palahniuk
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
#25 Muhammad Ali
“Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.”
#26 Ana de Armas
”My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way – but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside. ”
#27 John Irving
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
#28 Steven Wright
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
#29 Bill Hicks
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
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#30 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and — if at all possible — speak a few sensible words.”
#31 Mark Wahlberg
”Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.”
#32 Allen Klein
”A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.”
#33 Lincoln Diaz-Balart
”Perseverance and perspective until victory.”
#34 Taylor Hanson
”Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.”
#35 Isaac Asimov
“It is obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
#36 Siri Hustvedt
”Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective.”
#37 J.M. Barrie
“Nothing is really work, unless you would rather be doing something else.”
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#38 Bertrand Russell
“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.”
#39 Og Mandino
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
#40 Whoopi Goldberg
“Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.”
#41 Albert Camus
“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.”
#42 George Carlin
“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.”
#43 Tim Burton
“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.”
#44 Frances Hodgson Burnett
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
#45 Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
#46 Whitney Wolfe Herd
”Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.”
#47 Ursus Wehrli
”I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.”
#48 Sterling K. Brown
”Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.”
#49 Chris Pine
”The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.”
#50 Douglas Adams
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
#51 Ali Krieger
”Injuries give you perspective. They teach you to cherish the moments that I might have taken for granted before.”
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