Perspective Quotes · Page 30

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

— Thomas Holcroft

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

— Muhammad Ali

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”

— Shannon L. Alder

Every time I get into the ring, my perspective is that the other guy is standing between me and a victory.

— Sheamus

And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.

— Morris Chestnut

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

— Danai Gurira

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

— Tibor Kalman

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

— Gaston Bachelard

We live in a state-centric world faced with global-scale problems that cannot be met by the actions of single states, no matter…

— Richard A. Falk

Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed…

— Tom Bergeron

I'm a legal immigrant. I've gone through all the systems so I think I can talk about them from the fairness of…

— Young Kim

I hope to bring ancient philosophy and new scientific thinking together, to provide a new perspective of nature, especially the relationship between…

— Liu Dan

From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where…

— Damon Lindelof

When things become too fraught from a partisan perspective, people will start to have positions on important issues for the world that…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in…

— Peter Ackroyd

You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive…

— John Romero

No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every…

— Eckhart Tolle

I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging…

— Randy Newman

I've also been documenting an unsustainable way of life. And you see in peoples' stories that this world of consumerism does not…

— Lauren Greenfield

I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of…

— M. Ward

“I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind…

— Douglas Adams

The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because…

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

“The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing.…

— Hwang Sŏk-yŏng

The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth…

— Elizabeth Sims

“Opportunity is still everywhere—most people just haven’t trained themselves to see it.”

— Zangba Thomson

Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are.

— Neville Goddard

I don't have to force myself to not be excited or to think about the title. It's small to me, to be…

— Jared Cannonier

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

— Mariska Hargitay

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

— Pico Iyer

“If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”

— Suzy Kassem

If we could see others the way they see themselves it would change everything about how we relate to each other.

— Mike Messerli

Distance sometimes let you know who's worth keeping and who's letting go.

— Innah Delos Angeles

One of the most beautiful things about life is that you can make it better.

— Senora Roy

For me, keeping it simple is the best way to live life, to not complicate things, to sort of keep things in…

— Malcolm Brogdon

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

— Warren Farrell

“There was always something to learn from listening to and understanding people´s viewpoints.”

— Michelle Madow

For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

— Rumi

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

— Mac Miller

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

— Annie Lennox

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what…

— Ruth Ozeki