Quotes About Perspective

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

In accounting', rich dad would say, 'It's not the numbers , but what the numbers are telling you. It's just like words. It's not the words, but the story the words are telling you.

Along the way, each marveled at how easy it was to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important it would be to further rely on oneself.

listening means learning to hear someone's inner world and deepest feelings with far greater attention in order that we don't let our own assumptions get in the way. The dying may speak in images far more akin to dreamland than the world of everyday reality. In order to understand them we have to make adjustments to comprehend a poetic form of expression that is sometimes elusive but actually far more expressive than the world of facts.

Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it.

Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it. I wouldn't have five minutes.

There were more preposterous vicissitudes in life than a single philosophy could conjure.

Meanwhile, back at reality...- G.Lucas

Relax, Stranger. Things are not as they seem.

Zen is the spirit of the valley, not the mountaintop. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

The challenge is to maintain a high-level, broad perspective, understand enough details to make sensible and executable decisions, and then delegate responsibility for implementation. "Microknowledge" must not become micromanagement, but it sure helps keep people on their toes when they know that the secretary knows what the hell he's talking about. If the secretary of defense doesn't

Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on good rather than on time....

This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

Some things you miss because they're so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don't see because they're so huge.

To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land.

Familiarity can blind you

People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.

If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.

When she first came here she used to think there was somebody up in those big buildings who knows what's going on here. They would never come down and talk to her. After a while she found out nobody knows what's going on.

To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you see you have to go, until what looked like a small problem of communication turns into a major philosophic inquiry.

I turn my head from side to side.

You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV.

It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.